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US Plant Patent PP7734

Grostar

Poinsettia named Grostar

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 6, 2009. 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
PP7734
Filed
December 6, 1989
Granted
December 3, 1991
Expires
December 6, 2009

Abstract

A new Poinsettia cultivar distinguished by large, bright red bracts, large, thick stems and leaves and a short growth habit is herein described. The stems of this plant are noticeably strong with short internodes, yet possessing a strong self-branching habit. As a flowering potted plant, it performs equally well as a single-stemmed, unpinched plant or a branched, pinched plant.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinctive Poinsettia cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly distinguished by large, bright red bracts, large thick stems and leaves and a short, self-branching growth habit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7734 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.