US Plant Patent PP13867
Sunlapur
Petunia plant named ‘Sunlapur’
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
- PP13867
- Filed
- June 12, 2001
- Granted
- June 10, 2003
- Expires
- June 12, 2021
- Assignee
- SUNTORY FLOWERS LTD
- Inventor
- MIYAZAKI KIYOSHI
Abstract
‘SUNLAPUR’ is a decumbent plant, with very large and vivid purplish red flowers, which is suitable for potting and flower bedding. The spreading area of the plant is very large. This plant has abundant branching. The length of internodes is 2.8 cm. The leaf shape is lanceolate with some pubescence on the surface, having small petiole. Leaf color is dark green. The flowers are single and very large. Facing direction of flowers is slightly upward to horizontal. Ground color of flower is vivid reddish purple with dark purple vein. The bottom color of inside of throat is strong purple and the outside color of corolla tube is reddish purple. Shape of petal tip is acute, lobation is deep, and waving is medium. The plant exhibits early flowering. It has a high resistance to rain, heat, disease and moderate resistance to pests.
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 of time, (c) very large single flowers having a vivid reddish-purple coloration with a dark purple vein, and (D) high resistance to rain,
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13867 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.