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US Plant Patent PP12588

Balfafusia

Trailing interspecific impatiens plant named ‘Balfafusia’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 28, 2019. 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.

Figure 4 of US plant patent PP12588, the photograph of Balfafusia printed in the patent.
Figure 4 from US Plant Patent PP12588, 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
PP12588
Filed
December 28, 1999
Granted
April 30, 2002
Expires
December 28, 2019
Assignee
BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor
GUILLEN MARIO

Abstract

A new and distinct impatiens plant named ‘Balfafusia’ is provided. This new cultivar was the result of a unique interspecific cross between Impatiens flaccida and Impatiens Hawkeri . More specifically, the female or seed parent of ‘Balfafusia’ was a proprietary Impatiens flaccida breeding selection and the male or pollen parent was a bulk of Impatiens Hawkeri pollen collected from the Java Series F 1 hybrid New Guinea impatiens.

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

What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Balfafusia’ substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) Exhibits a unique trailing growth habit, (b) Forms medium green foliage, and (c) Exhibits a good basal branching character.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12588 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.