US Plant Patent PP4364
Shawnee
Impatiens plant Shawnee
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 3, 1998. 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
- PP4364
- Filed
- February 3, 1978
- Granted
- January 2, 1979
- Expires
- February 3, 1998
- Inventor
- RYAN JOHN J
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of New Guinea Impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Shawnee, and discovered by me in commercial greenhouses in Fremont, Calif. If pressed to compare to a known variety, Shawnee has a foliage that is closest in comparison to U.S. Department of Agriculture Arabesque; but the comparison is slight. Shawnee is unlike other varieties because of its distinctively wide variegation (dark green outer rim with prominent red veins in an off-gold center), its upright growth habit, good breaking action, fairly compact, and a medium-sized pink flower.
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 Shawnee, and particularly characterized by its distinctively wide variegation (dark green outer rim with prominent red veins in an off-gold center); its upright growth habit; good breaking action; fairly compact; and a medium pink flower.
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