US Plant Patent PP4952
Red Curly
Poinsettia named Red Curly
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 20, 2001. 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
- PP4952
- Filed
- April 20, 1981
- Granted
- November 16, 1982
- Expires
- April 20, 2001
- Assignee
- PAUL ECKE RANCH
- Inventor
- ECKE JR PAUL
Abstract
A new poinsettia cultivar of the curly type originating as a hybrid seedling and being distinguished by the dark red color of its bracts and the unique shape of the leaves and bracts which are abundant in number and are carried on strong, straight stems of medium height, the bracts being in a generally imbricated arrangement and forming a round cushion-like appearance with a diameter of from about 5 to 71/2 inches.
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, distinguished by the unique puckered and curled shape of the leaves and bracts, the bracts having a solid and overall dark red color and being in a generally imbricated arrangement so as to form a cushion-like appearance around the flowers of the plant.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4952 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.