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US Plant Patent PP13180

Balcebsafo

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Balcebsafo’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 30, 2021. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13180, the photograph of Balcebsafo printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13180, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP13180
Filed
January 30, 2001
Granted
November 5, 2002
Expires
January 30, 2021
Assignee
BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor
STROPE KERRY M

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea impatiens plant named Balcebsafo, characterized by its large light salmon flowers, dark green foliage, compact upright and mounded habit and excellent basal branching.

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 ‘Balcebsafo’ substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits attractive, large round light salmon flowers, (b) forms dark green foliage, (c) exhibits a good basal branching character, and exhibits a medium upright mounded growth habit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13180 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.