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US Plant Patent PP10025

Belle

Variety of Geranium plant named `Belle`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 28, 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
PP10025
Filed
December 28, 1995
Granted
September 9, 1997
Expires
December 28, 2015
Assignee
OGLEVEE LTD
Inventor
MOSIER JENNIFER

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Ivy Geranium having a better, more intense red color than Nanette. The new variety flowers earlier and its florets have more petals than either Nanette or Nicole. The new variety has more florets per umbel than either Nanette or Nicole. The new variety is more rounded and controlled than either Nanette or Nicole.

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 Ivy Geranium plant as described and shown herein and characterized by a better, more intense red color than Nanette, early flowering, has more petals on its florets, has more florets per umbel and is more rounded and controlled than either Nanette or Nicole.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10025 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.