US Plant Patent PP4246
America
Peony plant named America
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
- PP4246
- Filed
- May 9, 1977
- Granted
- May 2, 1978
- Expires
- May 2, 1995
- Assignee
- KLEHM BOYS PARTNERSHIP
- Inventor
- RUDOLPH NATHAN H
Abstract
A new cultivar of Paeonia lobata distinguished by its profuse production of large, scarlet red flowers held high above an abundant display of mint green foliage carried on large, tall canes, the imbricated flower petals forming a fiery red bowl surrounding a central mass of bright yellow stamens to present a spectacular color effect. This new peony plant has an abnormally early spring blooming habit and its growth is vigorous and rapid with above average strength and sturdiness.
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 peony cultivar substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its large, fiery red flowers carried on strong, tall stems above an abundant growth of mint green foliage, by its vigorous, strong and healthy growth and by its very early spring flowering habit.
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