US Plant Patent PP8574
Blitzen
Poinsettia plant named Blitzen
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 24, 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
- PP8574
- Filed
- February 24, 1993
- Granted
- February 1, 1994
- Expires
- February 24, 2013
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- DREWLOW LYNDON W
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of poinsettia plant named Blitzen, produced by grafting a seedling from the cross described to a plant of White Rochford for the purpose of transferring the excellent branching characteristics of White Rochford. Blitzen is characterized by its relatively large white bracts, strong, vigorous growth habit, early flowering, excellent branching, excellent foliage retention, resistance to heat delay of flower bud initiation when night temperatures are above 23° C., dark green leaves, and small cyathia cluster.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of poinsettia plant named Blitzen, as illustrated and described.
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