US Plant Patent PP7938
Americana Light Pink
Geranium named Americana Light Pink
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 19, 2011. 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
- PP7938
- Filed
- February 19, 1991
- Granted
- August 11, 1992
- Expires
- February 19, 2011
Abstract
A new Geranium cultivar particularly distinguished by the semi-double flowers which are bi-colored; each flower being light pink with a darker colored pink spot near the base of each petal. The plant itself is a strong upright dense bush having a vigorous and fast-rooting growth habit and growing to a height of 11 to 12 cm. as a 51/2 inch potted plant. The bi-colored flowers are long lasting, the color changing little with age.
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 Geranium cultivar substantially as herein shown and described characterized by green foliage with bi-colored light pink flowers with a distinct deeper colored spot near the center of the outer petals, the flowers being semi-double and borne on the large umbels of the plant that is fast rooting with a dense bush like growth habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7938 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.