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US Plant Patent PP6080

Micky

Geranium plant named Micky

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
PP6080
Filed
December 19, 1985
Granted
January 12, 1988
Expires
December 19, 2005
Assignee
VAVRA MIRKO
Inventor
KIRMANN WOLFGANG

Abstract

A geranium plant named Micky having bright red-purple flower color with a much deeper red-purple variegation on the upper two petals and approximate center of lower petals; medium early flowering; good bud production at night temperatures up to 16° C., thus providing a long and continuous flowering period; very compact, self-branching growth habit; good resistance against white fly; and ease of propagation and rooting habit.

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 Micky, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its bright red-purple flower color with a much deeper red-purple variegation on the upper two petals and approximate center of lower petals; medium early flowering; good bud production at night temperatures up to 16° C., thus providing a long and continuous flowering period; very compact, self-branching growth habit; good resistance against white fly; and by its ease of propagation and rooting habit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6080 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.