US Plant Patent PP4279
Apollo
Dutch iris plant named Apollo
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 23, 1997. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4279
- Filed
- September 23, 1977
- Granted
- July 11, 1978
- Expires
- September 23, 1997
- Assignee
- MARLBORO BULB FARMS
- Inventor
- HOMMES GERARD DIRK
Abstract
A new variety of Dutch iris plant suitable for greenhouse culture or outdoors when the temperature and light conditions are suitable and proper for the commercial production of cut flowers, particularly distinguished by its very large blossom, unusual orange-yellow center blotch of its falls and terminating in a light yellow blotch, and its white standards. This plant is also characterized by its extremely large and robust stalk which carries its flower much better than normal varieties, the flower lasting longer than normal varieties, blooms earlier, and the buds are very tight whereby this variety may be shipped successfully over longer distances.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive variety of iris plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the distinctive colored falls having an orange-yellow blotch and light yellow body and by its white standards, by its very large flower, by its tight buds allowing for long distance shipping before the bud opens, by its fast early growing habit, its strong large upright stems, with little or no crinkling of the falls and upright standards, and by its minimum size bulbs and its capability of blooming at any specific time in controlled environment.
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