US Plant Patent PP15273
Sunny Cecil
Osteospermum plant named ‘Sunny Cecil’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 22, 2023. 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
- PP15273
- Filed
- December 22, 2003
- Granted
- October 26, 2004
- Expires
- December 22, 2023
- Inventor
- LARSEN BJARNE NYHOLM
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant named ‘Sunny Cecil’, characterized by its compact, upright and mounded plant habit; dense and bushy growth habit; freely flowering habit; and white-colored ray florets and dark purple-tipped disc florets.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant named ‘Sunny Cecil’, as illustrated and described.
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