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US Plant Patent PP8353

Lilo Marble

Poinsettia plant `Lilo Marble`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 21, 2012. 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
PP8353
Filed
July 21, 1992
Granted
August 17, 1993
Expires
July 21, 2012

Abstract

Poinsettia `Lilo Marble` is a new cultivar, distinguished by pink and creamy white bicolored bracts and intense dark green foliage with self-branching characteristics. `Lilo Marble` is a color sport of the dark red bracted `Lilo` (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,694) with the same 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, pink and creamy white bicolored bracts, self branching and resistance to epinasty.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8353 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.