US Plant Patent PP4307
Rhumba
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
- PP4307
- 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 double crenate green oblong to elliptical foliage, branching at many of the leaf axils, peduncles of the inflorescence and individual flower pedicels being small in diameter but distinctly wiry and stiff, uniform flowering and very floriferous with orange red flowers, with both the foliage and flowers possessing outstanding keeping qualities.
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 of Rhumba and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of clear orange red flower color, with the throat being light orange; massive inflorescence, having substantial depth of flowering; excellent keeping qualities for both flowers and foliage; relatively thin but stiff, wiry flower stems; long, elliptical, double crenate foliage, excellent branching habit, and by its early, uniform flowering.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4307 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.