US Plant Patent PP6997
Mareli
Geranium plant named Mareli
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 29, 2008. 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
- PP6997
- Filed
- August 29, 1988
- Granted
- August 22, 1989
- Expires
- August 29, 2008
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of geranium plant particularly distinguished by the light violet color of its florets which becomes white at the center, by the very large size of its flower clusters, each of which contains about seventy well-formed florets, each floret being about 4.5 cm. in diameter and having from five to six petals; also by its abundant, dark green leaves which have no zonation and extend about 19 cm. above the soil; and by its upright, bushy growth habit, having a total height of about 30 cm.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new variety of geranium plant, substantially as herein shown and described and particularly distinguished by the very large size of its flower clusters and the light pink coloration of the individual florets.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6997 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.