US Plant Patent PP5479
Red Champion
Poinsettia plant named Red Champion
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 19, 2003. 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
- PP5479
- Filed
- July 19, 1983
- Granted
- May 28, 1985
- Expires
- July 19, 2003
- Assignee
- EARL J SMALL GROWERS INC
- Inventor
- SWEET JACK S
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of poinsettia plant named Red Champion, characterized by its large and deeper than normal red bracts and darker than normal green foliage, very vigorous and strong stems, long lasting characteristics for both foliage and bracts, excellent breaking when pinched, and its ease of propagation from cuttings.
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 Red Champion, substantially as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its large and deeper than normal red bracts and darker than normal green foliage, very vigorous and strong stems, long lasting characteristics for both foliage and bracts, excellent breaking when pinched, and its ease of propagation from cuttings.
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