US Plant Patent PP8772
490 White
Poinsettia plant "490 White"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 21, 2013. 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
- PP8772
- Filed
- July 21, 1993
- Granted
- June 7, 1994
- Expires
- July 21, 2013
- Assignee
- PAUL ECKE RANCH
- Inventor
- JACOBSEN PETER
Abstract
Poinsettia `490 White` is a new cultivar, distinguished by creamy white bracts and intense dark green foliage with self-branching characteristics. `490 White` is a color sport of the dark red bracted `490` (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,825) with the same early flowering response and cultural requirements. The new plant produces a very desirable branched flowering pot plant. The new plant is resistant to epinasty after being confined to shipping containers and recovers rapidly if the plant does become epinastic. The post-production foliage and bract retention is excellent even under low light intensities in the consumer's home.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct Poinsettia cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by its intense dark green foliage, white bracts, self branching, early flowering and good leaf and bract retention in the consumer environment.
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