US Plant Patent PP13715
Sunbelkuopi
Petunia plant named ‘Sunbelkuopi’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 12, 2021. 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
- PP13715
- Filed
- June 12, 2001
- Granted
- April 8, 2003
- Expires
- June 12, 2021
- Assignee
- SUNTORY LTD
- Inventor
- MURAKAMI YASUYUKI
Abstract
‘SUNBELKUOPI’ is a decumbent plant, with small and vivid purplish pink flowers, which is suitable for potting, hanging pots and flower bedding. This plant has abundant branching and secondary branching is especially strong. Leaf shape is lanceolate to elliptic with some pubescence on the surface, having a small petiole. Leaf color is dark yellowish green (RHS C.C. No.146A). The flowers are single and very small, 2.8 cm in diameter. The color of flower is vivid purplish pink (RHS C.C. No.80C). The bottom color of inside of throat is bright greenish yellow (RHS C.C.No.2B) and the outside color of corolla tube is pale yellowish green (RHS C.C. No.150D). Flowering time is late. The plant has a high resistance to heat, rain, cold and diseases.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. The new and distinct variety of Petunia plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by (A) a decumbent growth habit, (B) abundant branching with a great profusion of blooms and the entire plant remaining in bloom for considerable period time, (C) very small single flowers having a vivid purplish-pink coloration, (D) high resistance to rain and heat, and (E) superior tolerance to Powdery Mildew, and Botrytis.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13715 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.