US Plant Patent PP4306
Adagio
Kalanchoe plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 11, 1997. 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
- PP4306
- Filed
- August 11, 1977
- Granted
- September 26, 1978
- Expires
- August 11, 1997
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- HOPE CLAUDE
Abstract
A new asexually reproduced kalanchoe characterized by its intense bright red purple flower color, uniform mounded inflorescence, and broad versatility of sizes of plants that can be produced with equal keeping qualities regardless of size.
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 known by the cultivar name Adagio and characterized particularly as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of intense red purple flower color; excellent keeping qualities of the flowers; large floral display; small compact foliage; profuse self-branching; rapid rooting habit, and by the characteristic of being ideally suited for either normal or miniature flowering.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4306 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.