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US Plant Patent PP6309

Mirach

Impatiens plant named Mirach

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 8, 2006. 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
PP6309
Filed
October 8, 1986
Granted
September 27, 1988
Expires
October 8, 2006
Inventor
DREWLOW LYNDON W

Abstract

An Impatiens plant named Mirach, having intense bright red flower color which does not fade under high light and high temperature conditions; compact and self-branching growth habit; two flowers carried on most leaf axils, producing a floriferous habit, and having green leaves variegated with cream along the midrib.

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 Impatiens plant named Mirach, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its intense bright red flower color which does not fade under high light and high temperature conditions; compact and self-branching growth habit; two flowers carried on most leaf axils, producing a floriferous habit, and by its green leaves variegated with cream along the midrib.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6309 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.