US Plant Patent PP8959
White Opale
Spray carnation named White Opale
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 4, 2012. 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
- PP8959
- Filed
- November 4, 1992
- Granted
- October 25, 1994
- Expires
- November 4, 2012
- Assignee
- LAB DE PHYSIOLOGIE VEGETALE
- Inventor
- BRIZARD JEAN
Abstract
A new and distinctive spray carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by its very large size flowers being generally white color and slightly pale pink in color at the center of the petal with a greenish base, the flowers being carried on erect stems.
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 spray carnation plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized in particular by its recurrent profuse production of very large size flowers, the petals of which are in general of ivory color and are slightly pale pink at the center with a greenish base; the flowers being carried on an erect stem.
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