US Plant Patent PP5961
Tropicana
Kalanchoe plant named Tropicana
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 1, 2005. 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
- PP5961
- Filed
- October 1, 1985
- Granted
- April 28, 1987
- Expires
- October 1, 2005
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Kalanchoe plant named Tropicana, characterized by its orange-red flower; floriferous habit; superior self-branching; time to flowering of eleven weeks in summer to thirteen weeks in winter; requirement for growth regulation to control peduncle and pedicel elongation; relatively large, dark green foliage which maintains color after several months of flowering; excellent flower keeping qualities, and by its resistance to disease.
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 named Tropicana, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its orange-red flowers; floriferous habit; superior self-branching; time to flowering of eleven weeks in summer to thirteen weeks in winter; requirement for growth regulation to control peduncle and pedicel elongation; relatively large, dark green foliage which maintains color after several months of flowering; excellent flower keeping qualities, and by its resistance to disease.
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