US Plant Patent PP10157
Turner's 5-387
Nerium oleander plant `Turner's 5-387`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 19, 2016. 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
- PP10157
- Filed
- August 19, 1996
- Granted
- December 23, 1997
- Expires
- August 19, 2016
- Inventor
- TURNER SR TED LEON
Abstract
A Nerbium oleander plant which has a intermediate and upright habit of fairly rapid growth, being particularly characterized by its ever blooming character and the unique color of its inflorescence, the flowers being a medium pink color with areas of pink, and by flowers having a sweet fragrance.
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 variety of intermediate size Nerium oleander plant substantially as shown and described, having an upright habit of fairly rapid growth making it especially suitable for hedges, having an ability to be asexually reproduced, having the ability to flower substantially the entire year with long continuous blooming periods, having the ability to grow in full sun or in partial shade, being an excellent greenhouse plant, and being particularly characterized by its intermediate size combined with the unique color of its inflorescence, the flowers being a medium pink color, the margins being pinkish red, and with flowers having a sweet fragrance.
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