US Plant Patent PP9606
Salsa Red
Impatiens plant named `Salsa Red`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 19, 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
- PP9606
- Filed
- May 19, 1995
- Granted
- July 16, 1996
- Expires
- May 19, 2015
- Assignee
- GEO J BALL INC
- Inventor
- LEUE ELLEN F
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant, botanically known as Impatiens wallerana, and named `Salsa Red` is provided. This new cultivar was the result of a controlled breeding program wherein a plant designated 236-1 (non-patented in the United States) was pollinated by a plant designated 32-2-1 (non-patented in the United States). The new cultivar is early blooming and forms in abundance attractive fully double red blooms. The foliage is dark green. The plant exhibits a good basal-branching character and exhibits a medium upright mounded growth habit. The new cultivar can be readily distinguished from the `Rosebud Red` cultivar (non-patented in the United States) in view of the more compact growth habit and darker red flowers that are provided.
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 Impatiens wallerana plant named `Salsa Red` substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits attractive fully double red blooms in abundance, (b) is early blooming, (c) forms dark green foliage, (d) exhibits a good basal-branching character, and (e) exhibits a medium upright mounded growth habit.
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