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US Plant Patent PP9213

BFP-397 Light Salmon

New Guinea Impatiens named `BFP-397 Light Salmon`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 8, 2014. 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
PP9213
Filed
November 8, 1994
Granted
July 25, 1995
Expires
November 8, 2014
Inventor
TREES SCOTT C

Abstract

A new and distinct New Guinea Impatiens cultivar named BFP-397 Light Salmon is provided. This new cultivar was the result of a controlled breeding program wherein a plant designated N2507-3 (non-patented in the United States) was pollinated by a plant designated 3616-A (non-patented in the United States). The new cultivar forms attractive very large, light salmon flowers with a white eye, displays an iridescent appearance, exhibits distinctive variegated medium green foliage, and possesses a medium growth habit. The new cultivar can be readily distinguished from the Cameo cultivar U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,316).

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 named BFP-397 Light Salmon substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits attractive very large light salmon flowers with a white eye, (b) exhibits variegated medium green foliage, (c) exhibits a good basal branching character, and (d) exhibits a medium upright growth habit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9213 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.