US Plant Patent PP9151
Merione
Geranium plant named Merione
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 16, 2014. 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
- PP9151
- Filed
- February 16, 1994
- Granted
- May 30, 1995
- Expires
- February 16, 2014
- Assignee
- ENTHOVEN BREEDING B V
- Inventor
- ENTHOVEN ADRIANUS W M
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of geranium named Merione, particularly characterized by the combined features of red flowers that are semi-double, elliptic flower buds, early and equal flowering, large inflorescences with many flowers that open at the same time, flower stalks are long enough to grow above the plant, compact plant growth habit growing low and wide, green foliage with a light zone of red-brown color and leaf margins that are slightly incised, double crenated and wavy.
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 plant named Merione, as illustrated and described.
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