Skip to content
The Patent Garden

US Plant Patent PP6536

Carolyn

African violet plant named Carolyn

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 1, 2007. 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
PP6536
Filed
June 1, 1987
Granted
January 17, 1989
Expires
June 1, 2007

Abstract

An African violet plant named Carolyn, characterized by its bright, relatively dark pink, violet-shaped single flowers; tight bouquet above the leaves on strong upright flower stems; profuse flowering; vigorous growth habit; dark green, sometimes serrated, velvety leaves; and long lasting and non-dropping flowering habit.

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 cultivar of African violet named Carolyn, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its bright, relatively dark pink, violet-shaped single flowers; tight bouquet above the leaves on strong upright flower stems; profuse flowering; vigorous growth habit; dark green, sometimes serrated, velvety leaves; and long lasting and non-dropping flowering habit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6536 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.