US Plant Patent PP14405
Sunbelbura
Petunia plant named ‘Sunbelbura’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 28, 2022. 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
- PP14405
- Filed
- March 28, 2002
- Granted
- December 23, 2003
- Expires
- March 28, 2022
- Assignee
- SUNTORY FLOWERS LTD
- Inventor
- MURAKAMI YASUYUKI
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Petunia plant having a decumbent growth habit is provided. The Petunia plant has abundant branching particularly with respect to the secondary branching and a great profusion of blooms with the entire plant remaining in bloom for a considerable period of time. The flowers are very small with petals having a pale purplish pink color with deep reddish purple veins, and are abundantly formed in a spike. The blooming period commonly is from May to October. The plant also exhibits high resistance to rain, cold, heat, pests and diseases.
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 plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by (A) a semi-erect growth habit, (B) abundant branching with the secondary branching being particularly strong, (C) an abundant number of flowers in a spike with a great profusion blooms and the entire plant remaining in bloom for a considerable period of time, (D) a very small flower size with the petals having a pale purplish pink color with deep reddish purple veins, (E) a high resistance to rain, cold, heat, drought, diseases and pests, and (F) a late flowering time that commonly extends from May to October.
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