US Plant Patent PP10120
Sunrenimu
Torenia plant `Sunrenimu`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 20, 2015. 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
- PP10120
- Filed
- November 20, 1995
- Granted
- November 18, 1997
- Expires
- November 20, 2015
- Assignee
- SUNTORY LTD
- Inventor
- NAGASE YUKI
Abstract
A new and attractive hybrid of Torenia plant, names `Sunrenimu`, attained from `Crown Violet`×`Con Color`. The new plant has a less decumbent, more ascending or semi-upright habit and a more open canopy. This plant produces a profusion of flowers of purple with a lighter purple corolla tube coloration; and has a high resistance to heat, moderate resistance to pests and diseases and is shade tolerant to produce copious flowers from about late June to October, or until killed by frost.
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 the torentia plant characterized as to novelty by its semi-erect habit, dark reddish purple flower petal with light purple floral tube without yellow eye color, substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10120 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.