US Plant Patent PP5184
Corona
Impatiens plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 2, 2002. 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
- PP5184
- Filed
- March 2, 1982
- Granted
- January 31, 1984
- Expires
- March 2, 2002
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
An impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Corona and characterized by its large plant size and vigorous, self-branching growth habit; dark pink to red-purple flower color; excellent keeping qualities of flowers thereby making cultivar excellent for indoor use; relatively large green leaves with mid-rib veination, 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 impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Corona, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its large plant size and vigorous, self-branching growth habit; dark pink to red-purple flower color; excellent keeping qualities of flowers thereby making cultivar excellent for indoor use; relatively large green leaves with mid-rib veination, and by its adaptability to various environments of use.
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