US Plant Patent PP17974

THOR-KIRI

Schlumbergera plant named ‘THOR-KIRI’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 20, 2026. 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.

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The record

Patent number: PP17974
Filed: January 20, 2006
Granted: September 4, 2007
Expires: January 20, 2026
Assignee: GARTNERIET THORUPLUND AS
Inventor: ANDERSEN JOERGEN KURT

Abstract

A new and distinct Schlumbergera plant named ‘THOR-KIRI’ particularly characterized by large upright to vertical flowers; freely flowering white, light-purple and red-purple colored flowers; large quantity of flowers per plant; and slow growth rate and freely branching growth habit.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct Schlumbergera plant named ‘THOR-KIRI’, as illustrated and described herein.

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