US Plant Patent PP8937
BSR-266 Apple Star
New Guinea Impatiens named BSR-266 Apple Star
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 14, 2013. 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
- PP8937
- Filed
- October 14, 1993
- Granted
- October 11, 1994
- Expires
- October 14, 2013
- Assignee
- GEORGE J BALL INC
- Inventor
- TREES SCOTT C
Abstract
A new and distinct New Guinea Impatiens cultivar named BSR-266 Apple Star is provided. This new cultivar was the result of a controlled breeding program wherein a plant designated BFP-154 (non-patented in the United States) was pollinated by a plant designated BFP-170 (non-patented in the United States). The new cultivar forms attractive medium-sized bicolored blossoms displaying an iridescent appearance having pale pink petals with red attachment points and mid-ribs producing a red star pattern. Shiny dark bronze-green foliage and a good basal branching character also are exhibited. The new variety can be readily distinguished from the Vulcain cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,570).
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 BSR-266 Apple Star, substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits attractive bicolored pale pink/red star-patterned blossoms, (b) exhibits a good basal branching character, and (c) exhibits an open-branching compact small mounded growth habit.
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