US Plant Patent PP10453
Sanicomf
Fuchsia plant--`Sanicomf`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 28, 2017. 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
- PP10453
- Filed
- January 28, 1997
- Granted
- June 16, 1998
- Expires
- January 28, 2017
- Assignee
- SUNTORY LTD, NISHINOMIYA CITY
- Inventor
- TANAKA TOSHI; FUNAKOSHI HIDEFUMI; NOSE KENKICHI; SAKAZAKI USHIO
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a fuchsia plant, having a spreading growth habit of strongly bushy form, low plant height, fine branching, and short internode length. The plant shape is compact. The fuchsia plant has great profusion blooms, the whole bush remaining in bloom for a considerable period of time, and very long flowering duration. The flowers are single and do not have variegated patterns on the petals, the petals are deep violet in color having a deep purplish pink calyx tube also without any variegated pattern. The plant has a high resistance to heat, cold, disease and pests, and is able to grow in an outdoor garden during the term of intense summer heat.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of fuchsia plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by (A) having a spreading growth habit of strongly bushy form, low plant height, fine branching, and short internode length, (B) great profusion of blooms, the whole bush remaining in bloom for a considerable period of time, and very long flowering duration, (C) having flowers which are single without variegated pattern on petals which are deep violet color, (D) having deep purplish pink colored sepals without variegated pattern and deep purplish pink colored calyx without variegated pattern, and (E) a high resistance to heat, cold, disease and pests.
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