US Plant Patent PP9618
Sparkler Salmon
Impatiens plant named `Sparkler Salmon`
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
- PP9618
- Filed
- May 19, 1995
- Granted
- August 6, 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 `Sparkler Salmon` is provided. This new cultivar was the result of a controlled breeding program wherein a plant designated 213-1 (non-patented in the United States) was pollinated by a plant designated 43-4-3-1 (non patented in the United States). The new cultivar is early blooming and forms in abundance attractive fully double bicolored blooms that are salmon with irregular streaks of near white. The foliage is medium green. The plant exhibits a good basal-branching character and exhibits a medium upright mounded growth habit.
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 `Sparkler Salmon` substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits in abundance attractive fully double bicolored blooms that are salmon with irregular streaks of near white, (b) is early blooming, (c) forms medium green foliage, (d) exhibits a good basal-branching character, and (e) exhibits a medium upright mounded growth habit.
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