US Plant Patent PP4951
White Curly
Poinsettia named White 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
- PP4951
- Filed
- April 20, 1981
- Granted
- November 16, 1982
- Expires
- April 20, 2001
- Assignee
- PAUL ECKE RANCH
- Inventor
- ECKE JR PAUL
Abstract
A new variety of poinsettia plant of the "curly" type distinguished by the shape of its leaves and bracts, the yellowish white color of the bracts, and by its vigorous growth habit with little tendency to branch.
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 white curly poinsettia plant, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by the puckered and severely arching effect of its leaves and bracts, and by its abundant and closely centered bracts which have an overall yellowish white color.
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