US Plant Patent PP7767
Kiebessy
Kalanchoe plant -- Kiebessy cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 5, 2010. 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
- PP7767
- Filed
- September 5, 1990
- Granted
- January 14, 1992
- Expires
- September 5, 2010
- Assignee
- FIDES BEHEER B V
- Inventor
- VLIELANDER IKE
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Kalanchoe plant named Kiebessy is provided. The plant forms attractive bright pink flowers, exhibits a strong growth habit, and is freely branched. The plant is very floriferous, and is particularly well suited for growing as a colorful ornamental potted plant which brightens the environment. The keeping quality of the new cultivar is extremely good.
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 Kalanchoe plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms on a highly floriferous basis attractive bright pink flowers with numerous flowers per shoot, (b) exhibits a strong growth habit, (c) exhibits a freely branching character wherein shoots generally are formed at each node, (d) is suited for production in pots having a diameter of approixmately 10.5 to 13 cm., (e) is amenable to the application of a growth hormone to reduce the height which otherwise would be achieved, and (f) exhibits an extremely good keeping quality, substantially as herein shown and described.
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