US Plant Patent PP9660
Helichrysum plant named Harvest Sun
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 17, 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
- PP9660
- Filed
- August 17, 1995
- Granted
- October 15, 1996
- Expires
- August 17, 2015
- Assignee
- BAY CITY FLOWER CO
- Inventor
- BAUTISTA RODOLFO V
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of the Compositae family, named Helichrysum bracteatum cv. `Harvest Sun`, which originated as a seedling from the inventor's controlled crossing of a generic hybrid designated by the formula Helichrysum splendidum (Thunb.)×H. bracteatum (Vent.) with the species Helichrysum bracteatum (Vent.). The new variety is distinguished from Helichrysum bracteatum (Vent.) and all other members of the genera known to me by: the color of its flower and buds, in combination with its resistance to the root disease Pythium, its puberlent leaves, its compact growth habit, its ability to grow well in pots, and the ease with which it can be forced to flower outside for sale in the autumn without growth regulators. The new variety further possesses the commercially and aesthetically desirable characteristic of long-lasting flowers and attractive colors.
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 plant variety of the Compositae family substantially as herein shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9660 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.