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US Plant Patent PP16522

Sunny Amanda

Osteospermum plant named ‘Sunny Amanda’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 4, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 1, 2024. This patent earned 3 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16522, the photograph of Sunny Amanda printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16522, 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
PP16522
Filed
March 1, 2004
Granted
May 9, 2006
Expires
March 4, 2024
Assignee
SUNNY GRONNEGYDEN APS
Inventor
LARSEN BJARNE N

Abstract

A new distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant named ‘Sunny Amanda’, characterized by ray florets with the following mixture of colors: upper surface (when opening): RHS 157D, with a slight yellow tinge at base, gradually changing to RHS 163B at the apex, white to gray-orange; underside (when opening): RHS 162D at base, gradually changing to RHS 161A at the apex with 4 stripes of RHS 177A, gray-orange, (under some light conditions the underside appears golden); upper surfaces (fully opened): RHS 157D, with a slight yellow tinge at base and almost half-way up ray floret, then gradually changing to RHS 163B at the apex, white to gray-orange; underside (fully opened): RHS 162D at base, gradually changing to RHS 161A at the apex with 4 stripes of RHS 153A; disk florets with the following mixture of colors: upper surfaces(when opening): RHS N187D, gray purple; underside (when opening): RHS N155D, white; upper surfaces (fully opened); petal tips are RHS N187, purple; underside (fully opened): RHS N155D, white; dense and bushy plant form; with globular plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit, but less need for chemical growth retardation, and obovate to lanceolate leaves.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant named ‘Sunny Amanda’, as illustrated and described herein.

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