US Plant Patent PP9971
North Star
Variety of geranium named `North Star`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 29, 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
- PP9971
- Filed
- September 29, 1995
- Granted
- July 15, 1997
- Expires
- September 29, 2015
- Assignee
- ELSNER JUNGPFLANZEN
- Inventor
- HOFMANN CHRISTA
Abstract
The new cultivar is a early, rich flowering mass-production variety. It is not sensitive to chlorosis and has high productivity on the motherplant. Its elegant pure white flowers have big umbels and continuously flower. Its good garden performance is shown by its very good resistance to rainfall and bad weather. It does not change from the white color to light pink under unfavorable climatic conditions and does not display a neck break. It also has a vigorous compact mound growth. The new cultivar is an improvement in comparison to the old white variety "PAC Aphrodite".
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 geranium plant substantially as shown and described.
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