US Plant Patent PP10160
Pearl
Poinsettia plant `Pearl`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 10, 2016. 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
- PP10160
- Filed
- April 10, 1996
- Granted
- December 23, 1997
- Expires
- April 10, 2016
- Assignee
- PAUL ECKE RANCH
- Inventor
- JACOBSEN PETER
Abstract
Poinsettia `Pearl` is a new cultivar, distinguished by large white flower bracts, large leaves, strong thick stems and self-branching characteristics. `Pearl` is a tetraploid sport of `21-85` (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,250) with the same flowering response and cultural requirements. The new plant produces a very desirable branched flowering pot plant. The new plant is resistant to epinasty after being confined to shipping containers. The post-production foliage and bract retention are good.
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 strong thick stems, large white bracts, self branching, large leaves and good leaf and bract retention in the consumer environment.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10160 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.