US Plant Patent PP12162
Sunsenere
Senecio genus plant named ‘Sunsenere’
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
- PP12162
- Filed
- July 1, 1999
- Granted
- October 23, 2001
- Expires
- July 1, 2019
- Assignee
- SUNTORY LTD
- Inventor
- MIYAZAKI KIYOSHI
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a Senecio genus plant named ‘Sunsenere’ being of a high height and dome-shaped plant with abundant branching. There are very few pubescences on its stems. Leaf length is shorter and petiole length is longer than in Senecio L. ‘Sunsenere’ has no stipule. It has large flower clusters. Flowers are single flowered and have no marginal variegation. The color of the petal is vivid reddish purple and the disk flower is deep reddish purple. Blooming period is early and blooming term is longer than Senecio cruentus . Flower buds grow one after another from axil. The novel characteristics of ‘Sunsenere’ include (A) being a high and dome-shaped plant with abundant branching, (B) having very few pubescences on its stems, (C) having short leaves and a long petiole, (D) having a large flower cluster, (E) having petals of vivid reddish purple, disk flowers of deep reddish purple, and flowers with no marginal variegation, (F) having a long blooming term and (G) having 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 ‘Sunsenere’, substantially as herein illustrated and described.
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