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US Plant Patent PP4345

Tabasco

Kalanchoe named Tabasco

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 9, 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
PP4345
Filed
February 9, 1978
Granted
December 12, 1978
Expires
February 9, 1998
Inventor
HOPE CLAUDE

Abstract

A cultivar of kalanchoe for greenhouse culture as a potted plant, suitable for year around flowering under photoperiod control and characterized by its intense orange-red flowers of medium size which exhibit minimal fading, its medium plant height with medium sized glossy foliage, its 10-week flowering response and its resistance to powdery mildew.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinctive cultivar of kalanchoe, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its upright growth displaying relatively large clusters of intense orange-red flowers of medium size and its base cover of relatively large glossy foliage.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4345 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.