US Plant Patent PP12181
Sunsenedibu
Senecio genus plant named ‘Sunsenedibu’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 1, 2019. 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
- PP12181
- Filed
- July 1, 1999
- Granted
- October 30, 2001
- Expires
- July 1, 2019
- Assignee
- SUNTORY LTD
- Inventor
- MIYAZAKI KIYOSHI
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a Senecio genus plant named ‘Sunsenedibu’ which is tall and dome-shaped with abundant branching. There are very few pubescenes on its stems. The leaf is shorter and narrower than that of other Senecio L. ‘Sunsenedibu’ has no stipule. ‘Sunsenedibu’ has large flower clusters with large flowers. The flowers is single flowered and has no marginal variegation. The color of the petal and the disk flower is deep violet. The blooming period is early and blooming term is longer than Senecio cruentus . Flower buds grow one after another from axil. ‘Sunsenedibu’ has low fertility.
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 variety of Senecio genus plant named ‘Sunsenedibu’, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly by (A) being a high and dome-shaped plant with abundant branching, (B) having very few pubescences on its stems, (C) having small leaves, (D) having a large flower cluster with large flowers, (E) having deep violet petals and disk flowers, (F) having flowers with no marginal variegation, (G) having a long blooming term and (H) having low fertility.
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