US Plant Patent PP12171
Turner's 6-667
Nerium oleander plant-‘Turner's 6-667’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 28, 2019. 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
- PP12171
- Filed
- October 28, 1999
- Granted
- October 30, 2001
- Expires
- October 28, 2019
- Inventor
- TURNER SR TED LEON
Abstract
A Nerium oleander plant which has a petite and upright habit of growth, being particularly characterized by long blooming periods and the unique color of its inflorescnce and its habit of growth, the flowers being a white color with areas of pale yellow in the corona or throat, and which flowers grow in tight cymes or clusters resembling pompons.
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 petite size Nerium oleander plant substantially as shown and described, having an upright habit of growth making it especially suitable for hedges, having an ability to be asexually reproduced, having the ability to flower off and on throughout 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 petite size combined with the unique color of its inflorescence and its growth habit, and having terminal cymes of flowers which are tightly clustered, the flowers being a white color with throats or coronas of a pale yellow.
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