US Plant Patent PP10647
Superb
Aechmea plant named `Superb`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 6, 2017. 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
- PP10647
- Filed
- February 6, 1997
- Granted
- October 13, 1998
- Expires
- February 6, 2017
- Assignee
- DELEON S BROMELIADS INC
- Inventor
- DELEON NAT
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Aechmea fasciata is provided which forms a large abundantly branched pink-bracted inflorescence with contrasting blue flowers. The leaves are dark green, wide and spineless and are mottled with silver-white (as illustrated). The new variety can be readily distinguished from the `DeLeon` variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,832) by a taller and more rapid growth habit, more abundant branching, wider leaves, and the presence of the mottled leaf pattern that can be contrasted with the silver-white bands and barring on the leaves of the `DeLeon` variety.
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 Aechmea fasciata plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms a large pink-bracted inflorescence with contrasting blue flowers that is abundantly branched, (b) forms wide dark green spineless leaves that are mottled with silver-white, and (c) exhibits a vigorous tall growth habit; substantially as herein illustrated and described.
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