US Plant Patent PP5100
Camelot
African violet named Camelot
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 10, 2001. 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
- PP5100
- Filed
- April 10, 1981
- Granted
- September 6, 1983
- Expires
- April 10, 2001
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD W
Abstract
A new and distinct African Violet cultivar distinguished by its profuse production of shell pink flowers which have striking dark pink eyes and which comprise three large and two smaller petals. This plant has a vigorous growth habit and the flowers are borne on strong, erect stems which present them as a bouquet above a relatively flat bed of medium green foliage.
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 African Violet cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its production of a profusion of shell pink flowers having striking dark pink eyes and excellent keeping quality, the zygomorphic flower having three large and two smaller petals.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5100 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.