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US Plant Patent PP16568

Sunsenerapi

Senecio plant named ‘Sunsenerapi’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 4, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 30, 2023. This patent earned 248 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16568, the photograph of Sunsenerapi printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16568, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP16568
Filed
June 30, 2003
Granted
May 23, 2006
Expires
March 4, 2024
Assignee
SUNTORY FLOWERS LTD
Inventor
MIYAZAKI KIYOSHI

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a Senecio plant named ‘Sunsenerapi’ being of a high height and dome-shaped plant with abundant branching. There are moderate pubescences on its stem. Petiole length is longer than in Senecio L. It has a large flower cluster. Capitula are single flowered and have no marginal variegation. The color of the ray floret is light purplish pink and the disk florets are strong reddish purple. Blooming term is longer than Senecio cruentus. Flower buds grow one after another from axil.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of Senecio plant named ‘Sunsenerapi’, substantially as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16568 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.