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US Plant Patent PP5605

Improved Alabama

African violet plant named Improved Alabama

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
PP5605
Filed
January 5, 1984
Granted
December 17, 1985
Expires
January 5, 2004
Inventor
HOLTKAMP REINHOLD

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of African violet plant named Improved Alabama characterized by its vigorous and compact growth habit, strong and upright flower stems each of which carries 7-9 or more relatively large white-purple variegated frilled flowers, and by its relatively dark leaves.

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 Improved Alabama, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its vigorous and compact growth habit, strong and upright flower stems each of which carries 7-9 or more relatively large white-purple variegated frilled flowers, and by its relatively dark leaves.

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