US Plant Patent PP10111
Apple Blossom
New Guinea Impatiens named `Apple Blossom`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 24, 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
- PP10111
- Filed
- July 24, 1996
- Granted
- November 4, 1997
- Expires
- July 24, 2016
- Assignee
- BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
- Inventor
- TREES SCOTT C
Abstract
A new and distinct New Guinea Impatiens cultivar named `Apple Blossom` is provided. This new cultivar was the result of a controlled breeding program wherein the `Barbados` cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,467) was pollinated by a plant designated `6484-1` (non-patented in the United States). The new cultivar forms large light pink flowers with a deep fuchsia eye that display an iridescent appearance. The foliage is dark green and is accented by a red midvein (as illustrated). An attractive compact upright mounded growth habit is exhibited. The new cultivar can be readily distinguished from the `Tahiti` cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,601).
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 New Guinea Impatiens plant named `Apple Blossom`, substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits attractive large light pink flowers with a deep fuchsia eye, (b) forms dark green foliage with a reddish midvein, (c) exhibits a good basal branching character, and (d) exhibits a compact upright mounded growth habit.
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