US Plant Patent PP10377
Sanistanf
Fuchsia plant, Sanistanf
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
- PP10377
- Filed
- January 28, 1997
- Granted
- May 5, 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 and which has thick stems. The brace roots and stems of the fuchsia plant are thick and strong, and so it needs no support. 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 not having variegated pattern on petals, the petals having a deep violet to moderate purple color, and having vivid red sepals without variegated pattern and vivid red calyx tube without variegated pattern. The plant has a high resistance to heat, cold and disease, and medium resistance to pest, and it is able to growing in 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) being a spreading growth habit plant with strong bushy and thick stem, (B) great profusion 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 is deep violet to moderate purple color, (D) having vivid red sepals without variegated pattern and vivid red calyx without variegated pattern, and (E) a high resistance to heat, cold, and disease.
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