US Plant Patent PP4817
Regulus
Kalanchoe plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 11, 2000. 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
- PP4817
- Filed
- September 11, 1980
- Granted
- January 26, 1982
- Expires
- September 11, 2000
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- BUERKI MORITZ
Abstract
A Kalanchoe plant named Regulus having bright orange flower color and floriferous habit, compact, and relatively slow growth habit, freely branching habit, excellent and full flower placement, adaptability to production in 10 to 15 cm. pots, and a flowering time of 11 weeks in summer and 15 weeks in winter.
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 Regulus, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by the combined characteristics of bright orange flower color and floriferous habit, compact and relatively slow growth habit, freely branching habit, excellent and full flower placement, adaptability to production in 10 to 15 cm. pots, and by its flowering time of 11 weeks in summer and 15 weeks in winter after start of short days.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4817 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.