US Plant Patent PP11100
Snowcap
Poinsettia plant named `Snowcap`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 7, 2018. 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
- PP11100
- Filed
- January 7, 1998
- Granted
- October 19, 1999
- Expires
- January 7, 2018
- Assignee
- PAUL ECKE RANCH
- Inventor
- FRUEHWIRTH FRANZ
Abstract
Poinsettia `Snowcap` is a new cultivar, distinguished by creamy white flower bracts, medium dark green foliage, self-branching characteristics, and 9-week flowering response time. The flower bract color is whiter than most poinsettias in commerce. The new plant produces a very desirable branched flowering pot plant for the holiday season market. `Snowcap` is resistant to epinasty after being confined to shipping containers. 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 plant, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by its creamy white flower bracts, medium dark green foliage and self-branching characteristics.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11100 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.