US Plant Patent PP10311
SUNVP-SU
Verbena plant named `SUNVP-SU`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 13, 2016. 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
- PP10311
- Filed
- November 13, 1996
- Granted
- March 31, 1998
- Expires
- November 13, 2016
- Assignee
- SUNTORY LTD
- Inventor
- TACHIBANA RYUICHI
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a Verbena plant having a spread growth habit, long stems and a broad spreading area of plant flowers. The plant has abundant branching, plentiful number of flowers in a spike, and a great profusion of blooms. The blooming period is late April to November and flowering duration is long. The whole bush remains in bloom for a considerable period of time. The flower size is large and the petal color of the flower is a vivid red color. The plant has high tolerances to cold and heat, high resistance to pests and diseases, particularly powdery mildew, and high resistance to rain.
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 Verbena plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by (A) being a spread growth habit having long stems, (B) an abundant branching and plentiful number of flower in a spike and great profusion blooms, the whole bush remaining in bloom for a considerable period of time, (C) flower size is large and the petal color of flower is vivid red color, (D) a high resistance to rain, heat, drought, cold and pest.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10311 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.