US Plant Patent PP5255
Dignity
Kalanchoe plant named Dignity
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 23, 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
- PP5255
- Filed
- September 23, 1982
- Granted
- July 10, 1984
- Expires
- September 23, 2002
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
A kalanchoe plant named Dignity, characterized by its excellent keeping quality, free branching and vigorous growth habits, well clustered, pink flowers, high floriferousness, and its adaptability to various pot sizes and to growth regulators.
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 known by the cultivar name Dignity, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its soft light pink mature flower color, with a generally light salmon shade in some florets when opening, excellent keeping quality, free branching habit, highly floriferous and vigorous habit, and its adaptability to various pot sizes and growth regulators.
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