US Plant Patent PP7257
Marix
Geranium named Marix
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 24, 2009. 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
- PP7257
- Filed
- May 24, 1989
- Granted
- June 26, 1990
- Expires
- May 24, 2009
Abstract
A new and distinct Geranium cultivar particularly distinguished by its profuse and continuous production of clusters of large flowers having wide petals of a generally overhall fuchsia purple coloration, the buds and flowers comprising each umbel cluster opening successively from early April to Fall whereby the plant is in bloom from Spring throughout the Summer season. The plant itself is of a round shape with a bushy form and an abundant production of relatively large leaves growing in a mass reaching a height of about 24 cm. in September, the blooms standing well above the foliage mass on strong, upright stems having a length of about 12 to 16 cm. and the plant having a medium growth rate.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinctive Geranium variety substantially as herein shown and described, particularly distinguished by its bushy form and flowering habit from early Spring until Autumn and its fresh and brilliant color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7257 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.