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US Plant Patent PP7234

135

Poinsettia plant `135`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 27, 2008. 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
PP7234
Filed
October 27, 1988
Granted
May 22, 1990
Expires
October 27, 2008

Abstract

The present disclosure describes a new Poinsettia cultivar, named `135`, having attractive bicolored red and white flower bracts. `135` is stiff-stemmed with vigorous growth habits and self-branching traits which increases its value as a flowering branched plant. This new poinsettia cultivar originated as a sport of the cultivar described in U.S. Plant No. 3,889.

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

What is claimed: 1. A new and distinct Poinsettia cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by its predominantly white bracts bearing scattered red splotches, stiff-stemmed, and vigorous growth habits.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7234 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.