US Plant Patent PP10091
Purple Star
New Guinea Impatiens named `Purple Star`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 21, 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
- PP10091
- Filed
- June 21, 1996
- Granted
- October 28, 1997
- Expires
- June 21, 2016
- Assignee
- BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
- Inventor
- TREES SCOTT C
Abstract
A new and distinct New Guinea Impatiens cultivar named `Purple Star` is provided. This new cultivar was the result of a controlled breeding program wherein a plant designated `198` (non-patented in the United States) was pollinated by the `Tonga` cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,408). The new cultivar forms large bicolored lavender/purple flowers that display an iridescent appearance. The foliage is dark bronze-green in coloration with a red midvien. An attractive medium upright mounded growth habit is exhibited. The new cultivar can be readily distinguished from the parent `Tonga` cultivar.
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 `Purple Star`, substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits attractive large bicolored lavender/purple flowers, (b) forms dark bronze-green foliage with a red midvein, (c) exhibits a good basal branching character, and (d) exhibits a medium upright growth habit.
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