US Plant Patent PP5150
R-13
Poinsettia plant named R-13
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 15, 2002. 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
- PP5150
- Filed
- January 15, 1982
- Granted
- November 29, 1983
- Expires
- January 15, 2002
- Inventor
- ECKE JR PAUL
Abstract
A new, red poinsettia plant having the overall beauty of the Eckespoint C-1 Red (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2923) and being especially distinguished by blooming at least two weeks earlier, a characteristic made possible by growing at the lower temperature, 15° to 17° C., of the Annette Hegg line of poinsettias. This variety has abundant foliage of a noticeably darker color than that usually found in common commercial varieties and its bright red, tightly centered and imbricated bracts provide a full and compact display of color above the sharply contrasting foliage when the plant is in full bloom.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive red poinsettia cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its bright dark red bract color and its early, eight to ten week, blooming characteristic at a low growing temperature, generally in the range of 15° to 17° C.
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