US Plant Patent PP9057
Late Blooming Freedom
Poinsettia plant `Late Blooming Freedom`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 7, 2014. 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
- PP9057
- Filed
- February 7, 1994
- Granted
- February 14, 1995
- Expires
- February 7, 2014
- Assignee
- PAUL ECKE RANCH
- Inventor
- FRUEHWIRTH FRANZ
Abstract
Poinsettia `Late Blooming Freedom` is a new cultivar, distinguished by dark red flower bracts, dark green foliage, naturally late flowering and self-branching characteristics. `Late Blooming Freedom` is a sport of the poinsettia `490` (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,825) with the same cultural requirements. The new plant produces a very desirable late flowering branched pot plant.
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 dark red flower bracts, dark green foliage, naturally late flowering and self branching traits.
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