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US Plant Patent PP6460

Golden King

Ficus benjamina plant named Golden King

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 27, 2006. 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
PP6460
Filed
August 27, 1986
Granted
December 13, 1988
Expires
August 27, 2006
Inventor
SIMOENS ADRIEN

Abstract

A Ficus benjamina plant named Golden King having a vigorous growth habit, luxuriant green leaves variegated light yellow entirely around the border and irregularly inwardly of the borders, and having good temperature tolerance.

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 Ficus benjamina named Golden King, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its vigorous growth habit, luxuriant green leaves variegated light yellow entirely around the border and irregularly inwardly of the borders, and by its temperature tolerance.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6460 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.