US Plant Patent PP6339
Nerium oleander plant -- Turner's Carnival
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 12, 2006. 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
- PP6339
- Filed
- September 12, 1986
- Granted
- October 18, 1988
- Expires
- September 12, 2006
- Inventor
- TURNER SR TED L
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A Nerium oleander plant which has a petite and upright habit of fairly rapid growth, being particularly characterized by the unique color of its inflorescence, the flowers being a soft pink color with tinges of pinkish red.
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 substantially as shown and described, having an upright habit of fairly rapid growth making it especially suitable as a low hedge or pot plant, having an ability to be asexually reproduced, having the ability to flower off and on throughout the entire year, having the ability to grow in full sun or in partial shade, having the ability to grow and flower in relatively small pots, and being particularly characterized by its petite size combined with the unique color of its inflorescence, the flowers being a soft pink color with tinges of pinkish red.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6339 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.