US Plant Patent PP4248
Cheddar Gold
Peony named Cheddar Gold
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 2, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 9, 1997, but this patent ends 738 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4248
- Filed
- May 9, 1977
- Granted
- May 2, 1978
- Expires
- May 2, 1995
- Assignee
- KLEHM BOYS PARTNERSHIP
- Inventor
- KLEHM ROY G
Abstract
A new variety of peony lactiflora distinguished by a profuse production of medium sized flowers with petalage of the Japanese type providing large, white, rounded, and smooth guard petals surrounding a large central mass of yellow stamenoids, the flowers being further distinguished by the unusual appearance of white petaloids at the center of the bloom and by a high degree of peony fragrance. This plant is of medium height with average strength, a rapid growth rate and abundant clear green foliage, and a mid-season blooming habit.
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 variety of peony lactiflora substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its profuse production of medium sized white flowers having spreading Japanese style, rounded guard petals which surround a large mass of yellow staminodes, at the center of which white petaloids generally appear.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4248 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.