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US Plant Patent PP16288

Balfafblus

Interspecific Impatiens plant named ‘Balfafblus’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 13, 2024. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16288, the photograph of Balfafblus printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16288, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP16288
Filed
December 13, 2004
Granted
February 21, 2006
Expires
December 13, 2024
Assignee
BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor
GUILLEN MARIO

Abstract

A new and distinct Impatiens plant named ‘Balfafblus’ characterized by its single, very pale violet-colored flowers, dark green-colored foliage, good basal branching character, and vigorous, mounded and trailing growth habit.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant named ‘Balfafblus’, substantially as herein shown and described, which: 1. Exhibits single, very pale violet-colored flowers. 2. Forms dark green-colored foliage. 3. Exhibits a good basal branching character. 4. Exhibits a vigorous, mounded and trailing growth habit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16288 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.