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.
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