US Plant Patent PP9754
Sunberubu
Petunia plant named `Sunberubu`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 3, 2015. 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
- PP9754
- Filed
- April 3, 1995
- Granted
- December 17, 1996
- Expires
- April 3, 2015
- Assignee
- SUNTORY LTD
- Inventor
- SUZUKI KENICHI; NISHIKAWA YOSHIJI; MURAKAMI YASUYUKI
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a petunia plant having a intermediate habit type between upright habit type and decumbent habit type. The plant has abundant branching and a great profusion of blooms, and the whole bush remains in bloom for a long period of time. The flowers are single and very small, and the petals have a vivid reddish purple color and vivid greenish yellow throat inside portion. The plant is highly resistant to cold, rain, heat, and disease.
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 variety of petunia plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by (A) an abundant branching and a great profusion of blooms, the whole bush remaining in bloom for a considerable period of time, (B) flowers that are single and very small, the petals having a vivid purple color and vivid greenish yellow throat inside portion, and (C) a high resistance to cold, rain, heat, and disease.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9754 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.