US Plant Patent PP12185
Inca
Aechmea plant named ‘Inca’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 18, 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP12185
- Filed
- October 18, 1999
- Granted
- November 6, 2001
- Expires
- October 18, 2019
- Assignee
- DEROOSE PLANTS BVBA
- Inventor
- SKOTAK JR CHESTER
Abstract
An Aechmea plant named ‘Inca’ characterized by having a compact plant shape and large inflorescence; wide, green, tongue-shaped foliage that is suffused with white-grey color; arched foliage which decreases from the bottom to the top of the plant; foliage that has no spines on the leafedge; large, long lasting, red-pink inflorescence which is heavily branched; and bracts with reddish-pink tinged tips on younger bracts and yellow tips on older bracts which make them distinctly visible.
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 Aechmea plant named ‘Inca’, substantially as illustrated and described herein.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12185 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.