US Plant Patent PP4746
Chinook
Impatiens plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 16, 2000. 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
- PP4746
- Filed
- May 16, 1980
- Granted
- June 23, 1981
- Expires
- May 16, 2000
- Inventor
- RYAN JOHN J
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of New Guinea Impatiens plant, known by the cultivar name Mohegan, a seedling resulting from the cross pollenation of unpatented pollen parent 76-49-1 and unpatented pistil parent 76-45-1 and is distinguished by its very dark, red-purple flower; upright growth habit; desirable response to age and feeding by producing larger flowers (5.0 cm to 6.5 cm in length and width), and distinctive dark reddish-green, dark chocolate brown looking foliage characterized by darker red spots upon close observation.
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 form of Impatiens plant as described and illustrated, known by the cultivar name Mohegan.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4746 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.