US Plant Patent PP6014
Betty
Geranium plant named Betty
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 19, 2005. 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
- PP6014
- Filed
- December 19, 1985
- Granted
- September 15, 1987
- Expires
- December 19, 2005
- Assignee
- VAVRA MIRKO
- Inventor
- KIRMANN WOLFGANG
Abstract
A geranium plant named Betty having white flower color, variegated with deep purple; medium green fol iage; compact, self-branching growth habit; early flowering; good bud production at night temperatures up to 16° C., thus providing a long and continuous flowering period; and ease of propagation.
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 named Betty, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its white flower color, variegated with deep purple; medium green foliage; compact, self-branching growth habit; early flowering; good bud production at night temperatures up to 16° C., thus providing a long and continuous flowering period; and ease of propagation.
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