US Plant Patent PP9885
Liricashower Blue
Petunia plant named `Liricashower Blue`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 16, 2016. 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
- PP9885
- Filed
- January 16, 1996
- Granted
- May 6, 1997
- Expires
- January 16, 2016
- Assignee
- SAKATA SEED CORP
- Inventor
- BESSHO MASAO; NAKAMURA SEIJI; KOJIMA HITOSHI
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a new and distinct decumbent type Petunia plant named `Liricashower Blue`, having compact growth habit bred from crosses made in Japan from South America commercial Petunias of creeping growth habit. The new variety is strongly branching with a great profusion of blooms. The flowers are single and small with violet blue colored petals. The plant is highly resistant to rain, heat, and drought.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named `Liricashower Blue`, as herein illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9885 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.