US Plant Patent PP8029
Americana Pink
Geranium named Americana 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
- PP8029
- Filed
- February 19, 1991
- Granted
- November 10, 1992
- Expires
- February 19, 2011
Abstract
A new Geranium plant particularly distinguished by its abundant foliage and its large semi-double pink colored flowers. The flower clusters consist of about forty florets each of which has a diameter of about 4.5 centimeters; the plant being free flowering and fast-rooting. The plant is quite spectacular in the balance of inflorescence to plant mass, with the relatively short peduncles placing the unusually large, colorful umbels just atop the foilage.
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 Geranium substantially as herein shown and described characterized by green foilage with pink colored with splashes of white and light pink semi-double flowers on large umbels held just above the foilage by relatively short peduncles, the plant being fast-rooting and having a vigorous bush like growth habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8029 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.