US Plant Patent PP6286
Gugino's Nell
Geranium named `Gugino's Nell`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 20, 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
- PP6286
- Filed
- October 20, 1986
- Granted
- September 13, 1988
- Expires
- October 20, 2006
- Inventor
- GUGINO JOHN L
Abstract
A new geranium cultivar distinguished by its rose-red flowers of medium size borne on a rigid, upright stem and having a continuous and abundant flowering habit throughout the year with adequate greenhouse photoperiod for wintertime blooming. The plant has a vigorous and rapid growth rate with excellent branching off the main leader, an abundant production of foliage, and its blooms have a lasting quality of 10 to 14 days.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive geranium cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly characterized by the rose-red coloration of its blooms, a continuous and abundant year around flowering ability, and by its vigorous and much branched growth habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6286 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.