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US Plant Patent PP7316

Yuletide

Poinsettia plant named Yuletide

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 22, 2009. 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
PP7316
Filed
May 22, 1989
Granted
September 4, 1990
Expires
May 22, 2009

Abstract

A Poinsettia plant named Yuletide originated from grafting the cultivar Super Rochford, known for its excellent branching, to the cultivar Merrimaker, known for its color intensity and bract quantity. Yuletide is characterized by its intense rich red bract color, excellent branching, compact habit, early flower initiation, non-splitting cyathia which are retained under stress, and its tolerance to conditions of low light and high temperature.

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 Yuletide, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7316 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.