US Plant Patent PP8709
Terkitos
Gerbera plant `Terkitos`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 9, 2012. 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
- PP8709
- Filed
- September 9, 1992
- Granted
- May 3, 1994
- Expires
- September 9, 2012
- Assignee
- TERRA NIGRA B V
- Inventor
- STRAVERS JOHANNES J M
Abstract
A new and distinct member of Gerbera jamesonni plant named `Terkitos` which is particularly distinguished by its double flower type and a specific intense lilac-purple color of the ray florets, a green disc floret, the outermost florets of which show white stigmas and the middle flowers of which show yellow anthers, purple perianth lobe color and 100 mm overall flower diameter.
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 Gerbera jamesonni plant named `Terkitos`, as illustrated and described, distinguished by its double flower type and a specific intense lilac-purple color of the ray florets, a green disc floret, the outermost florets of which show white stigmas and the middle flowers of which show yellow anthers, purple perianth lobe color and 100 mm overall flower diameter.
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