US Plant Patent PP7153
Marktex
Geranium plant named Marktex
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 12, 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
- PP7153
- Filed
- September 12, 1988
- Granted
- February 13, 1990
- Expires
- September 12, 2008
Abstract
A new and distinctive geranium cultivar particularly distinguished by its very large flower clusters, or flower balls, of a light red or vermilion coloration and comprising up to about sixty closely-growing florets of medium size, each with five very broad, imbricated petals. The cluster stalks are sturdy, upright, brown in color and about 12 cm. long and the blooms are very long lasting. The foliage is bushy and abundant, the medium sized leaf having an intensive zonation, and the foliage extends about 15 cm. above the soil.
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 cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized in particular by the very large size of the umbel-formed flower clusters of about twelve, dark salmon-colored florets, each of which has broad, closely imbricated petals, and by its abundant foliage of medium sized, dark green leaves.
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