US Plant Patent PP9768
Puna Gold
Guzmania `Puna Gold`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 20, 2015. 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
- PP9768
- Filed
- July 20, 1995
- Granted
- December 24, 1996
- Expires
- July 20, 2015
- Inventor
- SHIIGI DAVID R
Abstract
The plant of the disclosure is a new and novel interspecific Guzmania plant, named `Puna Gold`, which is characterized as a perennial monocot of medium size which is vigorous; and, upright, spreading in habit. Flowering is conspicuously yellow and very long lasting with color retention of between about 3 to 6 months. Extension of inflorescence is about 43 to 48 cm. over a plant of about 72 to 82 cm in width. The plant produces between 36 to 40 leaves for optimum plant size and balance with inflorescence. Bracts and flower parts are brilliant and pale yellow, respectively, with flowers in tight groupings of 263 to 273 individual flowers.
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 hybrid cultivar named Guzmania "Puna Gold" obtained by crossing Guzmania memoria (G. lingulata variety minor crossed with G. lingulata variety major) and Guzmania insignis (G. lingulata variety splendens with G. zahnii) substantially as illustrated and described herein.
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