US Plant Patent PP6115
Minstrel
Poinsettia plant named Minstrel
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 31, 2006. 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
- PP6115
- Filed
- January 31, 1986
- Granted
- February 23, 1988
- Expires
- January 31, 2006
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- DREWLOW LYNDON W
Abstract
A poinsettia plant named Minstrel particularly characterized by the combined characteristics of bright red colored bracts, dark green foliage, vigorous dwarf growth habit, early flowering, and by its ability to be grown as a single stem or pinched plant.
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 Minstrel, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its bright red colored bracts; dark green foliage; vigorous, dwarf growth habit; early flowering; and by its ability to be grown as a single stem or pinched plant.
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