US Plant Patent PP8866
586
Poinsettia plant `586`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 7, 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
- PP8866
- Filed
- December 7, 1993
- Granted
- August 16, 1994
- Expires
- December 7, 2013
- Assignee
- PAUL ECKE RANCH
- Inventor
- FRUEHWIRTH FRANZ
Abstract
Poinsettia `586` is a new cultivar of the "curly" flower type, distinguished by red flower bracts, unique flower bract formation and presentation, dark green foliage and self-branching characteristics. The new plant produces a very desirable branched flowering pot plant. 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 unusual bract formation and presentation, dark green foliage, and self-branching characteristics.
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