US Plant Patent PP9886
White Sails
Poinsettia plant named `White Sails`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 26, 2015. 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
- PP9886
- Filed
- September 26, 1995
- Granted
- May 6, 1997
- Expires
- September 26, 2015
- Assignee
- FERNLEA FLOWERS LTD
- Inventor
- LEIGHFIELD WILLIAM
Abstract
A poinsettia plant named "White Sails" particulaly characterized by is brilliant cream colored bracts agains a background of dark green foliage, its strong, fixed stems, its long lasting keeping qualities in the home, its excellent resisance to fade, vigorous growth habits and its branch and bract production.
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 variety of poinsettia plant as herein shown and described, particularly characterized by its brilliant cream colored bracts against a background of dark green foliage, its strong, fixed stems, its long lasting keeping qualities in the home, its excellent resistance to fade, vigorous growth habits and its branch and bract production.
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