US Plant Patent PP15823
Sunbelkupapi
Petunia plant named ‘Sunbelkupapi’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 6, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 25, 2023. This patent earned 73 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP15823
- Filed
- November 25, 2003
- Granted
- July 5, 2005
- Expires
- February 6, 2024
- Assignee
- SUNTORY FLOWERS LTD
- Inventor
- MURAKAMI YASUYUKI
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a Petunia plant having decumbent growth habit. The petunia plant has abundant branching, particularly with respect to secondary branching, and great profusion of blooms with the entire of plant remaining of bloom for a considerable period of time. The flowers are single and very small with the petals having a deep purplish-pink color with a yellowish-white eye. The bottom color of corolla throat is brilliant yellow-green. The outside color of corolla throat is light greenish-yellow. The plant exhibits high resistance to rain, heat, drought and disease such as powdery mildew.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct Petunia plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described.
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