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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
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.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8959 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.