US Plant Patent PP9879
Poinsettia plant Peterstar Pink
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 10, 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
- PP9879
- Filed
- July 10, 1995
- Granted
- April 29, 1997
- Expires
- July 10, 2015
- Assignee
- PAUL ECKE RANCH
- Inventor
- JACOBSEN PETER
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
Poinsettia `Peterstar Pink` is a new cultivar, distinguished by dark pink bracts, large flowers, strong stems and self-branching characteristics. `Peterstar Pink` is a sport of the red bracted `Peterstar` (U.S. Pat. No. P.P. 8,259) 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 is 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 cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by its strong stems, dark pink bracts, self-branching, large flowers and good leaf and bract retention in the consumer environment.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9879 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.