US Plant Patent PP17939

Whip Burgto

Petunia plant named ‘Whip Burgto’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 7, 2026. 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.

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The record

Patent number: PP17939
Filed: March 7, 2006
Granted: August 21, 2007
Expires: March 7, 2026
Assignee: GOLDSMITH SEEDS INC
Inventor: HANES MITCHELL E

Abstract

A new petunia plant particularly distinguished by medium, deep burgundy-purple flowers, medium-green foliage with elliptical to ovate leaves, a small to medium, round, bushy, tight and compact plant habit with moderately vigorous growth, an initially spreading to decumbent to semi-trailing plant habit with an early and continuous flowering response, is disclosed.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of petunia plant as shown and described herein.

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