US Plant Patent PP9408
Pampas Fire
Petunia plant named `Pampas Fire`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 8, 2014. 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
- PP9408
- Filed
- February 8, 1994
- Granted
- December 26, 1995
- Expires
- February 8, 2014
- Inventor
- ROTHER REINHARD W
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Petunia axillaris plant called "Pampas Fire" is described. The variety is a prostate, diffuse spreading, viscid glandular pubescent perennial with spreading or handing leaves and reaching a length of 1 meter or more. The leaves are ovate and about 3-4 cm long×1-2 cm wide; early leaves are commonly larger than later leaves, and some early leaves are exceptionally large. The savlerform, pendulous flowers have a red purple corolla, purple violet backs of the petals and tube, and blue veins of petals and tube. The variety is tolerant of a wide range of temperatures, especially higher temperatures, has a high growth rate and is ever blooming with a high concentration of blooms.
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 Petunia axillaris plant named "Pampas Fire" as herein illustrated and described.
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