US Plant Patent PP4384
Poinsettia V-14
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 24, 1998. 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
- PP4384
- Filed
- April 24, 1978
- Granted
- February 20, 1979
- Expires
- April 24, 1998
- Assignee
- ECKE JR PAUL
- Inventor
- GUTBIER GREGOR
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
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
A new variety of poinsettia plant distinguished by the unique characteristic of having nearly the overall beauty and red color of Eckespoint C-1 Red (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,923) but blooming approximately one to two weeks earlier at about one to two degrees C. lower forcing temperature thereby effecting a considerable saving of fuel. This new plant also has the unique ability to produce a side shoot on its stem for virtually every axial bud thereby adapting this variety for production of multi-stemmed (pinched) plants of superior beauty and quality. The bracts are often as wide as they are long with a remarkable absence of drooping and since the bract petioles are short, the bracts have a full and compact appearance.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive red poinsettia plant substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by its relatively short blooming time and lower forcing temperatures, its ability to produce a side shoot at substantially every axial bud on its stem, and by its large bracts having very short petioles to provide a full compact appearance in full bloom.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4384 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.