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US Plant Patent PP6389

Sunregal

Impatiens plant named Sunregal

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
PP6389
Filed
October 8, 1986
Granted
November 15, 1988
Expires
October 8, 2006
Inventor
DREWLOW LYNDON W

Abstract

An Impatiens plant named Sunregal, having lavender purple bicolor flowers; deep red-purple main stem; compact self-branching growth habit; small dark green and shiny leaves with a purple midrib, and having the ability to produce two flowers per each leaf axil thereby making it highly floriferous.

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 plant named Sunregal, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its lavender purple bicolor flowers; deep red-purple main stem; compact self-branching growth habit; small dark green and shiny leaves with a purple midrib, and by its ability to produce two flowers per each leaf axil thereby making it highly floriferous.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6389 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.