US Plant Patent PP10118
Sunrenipiho
Torenia plant `Sunrenipiho`
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
- PP10118
- Filed
- November 20, 1995
- Granted
- November 11, 1997
- Expires
- November 20, 2015
- Assignee
- SUNTORY LTD
- Inventor
- MIYAZAKI KIYOSHI; OHSUMI TOSHIKAZU
Abstract
A new and attractive hybrid of Torenia plant, named `Sunrenipiho`, attained as a spontaneous mutation of `Sunrenibu`. The new plant has a less decumbent, more ascending or semi-upright habit and an uncommonly dense canopy of an attractive mounded form which does not collapse during the season. This plant produces a profusion of flowers of petals of contrasting strong reddish-purple and white, with a reddish-purple corolla tube coloration; and has a high resistance to heat, moderate resistance to pests and diseases and is highly shade tolerant to produce copious flowers from about late June to November, or until killed by frost.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of the Torenia plant, characterized as to novelty by its semi-erect habit, strong reddish purple floral tube and bi-color of white petals and strong reddish purple side lips without yellow eye color, substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10118 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.