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US Plant Patent PP7152

Calypso

Eryngium planum plant named Calypso

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 21, 2008. 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
PP7152
Filed
October 21, 1988
Granted
February 13, 1990
Expires
October 21, 2008

Abstract

A distinct cultivar of Eryngium planum named Calypso, discovered growing in a bed of plants of the parent cultivar Fluela. Calypso distinguishes from its parent by its longer peduncles, it variegated leaves comprised of cream colored margins and internal stripes or specks, and by its asexual reproducability only by tissue culture. The flower color of Calypso is medium violet, similar to its parent.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Eryngium planum named Calypso, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7152 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.