US Plant Patent PP5708
Columbus
African violet plant named Columbus
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 5, 2004. 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
- PP5708
- Filed
- January 5, 1984
- Granted
- April 1, 1986
- Expires
- January 5, 2004
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of African violet plant named Columbus, characterized by its vigorous growth habit, girl type leaves, white-purple single flowers which occasionally have additional flower petals in the center of the flower, strong and upright stems, each of which carry 9 or more flowers, which are long lasting and non-dropping.
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 plant named Columbus, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its vigorous growth habit, girl type leaves, white-purple single flowers which occasionally have additional flower petals in the center of the flower, strong and upright stems, each of which carry 9 or more flowers, which are long lasting and non-dropping.
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