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US Plant Patent PP4842

Topwhite

Poinsettia named Topwhite

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 17, 2000. 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
PP4842
Filed
October 17, 1980
Granted
April 27, 1982
Expires
October 17, 2000
Assignee
ECKE JR PAUL
Inventor
JACOBSEN PETER

Abstract

A new poinsettia cultivar distinguished by the unique characteristic of a whiter bract as compared with the former white variety of the Annette Hegg line shown and described in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,082. Otherwise this new plant has retained the important self branching, easy rooting, low temperature blooming and medium height characteristic of the Hegg family of poinsettias.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct poinsetta cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by the whiter and cleaner color of its bracts and its retention of the advantageous physical and growing characteristics of its red parent variety.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4842 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.