US Plant Patent PP5804
Zenith
Impatiens plant named Zenith
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 19, 2004. 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
- PP5804
- Filed
- October 19, 1984
- Granted
- November 18, 1986
- Expires
- October 19, 2004
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
An Impatiens plant named Zenith, having deep orange, large flowers, vigorous, self-branching mounded growth habit making it useful for pot and border plant use; relatively large glossy green leaves with a distinct toothed midrib variegation, and by its adaptability to various environments of use.
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 New Guinea Impatiens plant named Zenith, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its deep orange, large flowers, vigorous, self-branching mounded growth habit making it useful for pot and border plant use; relatively large glossy green leaves with a distinct toothed midrib variegation, and by its adaptability to various environments of use.
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