US Plant Patent PP5805
Improved North Carolina
African violet plant named Improved North Carolina
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
- PP5805
- Filed
- January 5, 1984
- Granted
- November 18, 1986
- Expires
- January 5, 2004
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of African violet plant named Improved North Carolina characterized by its very strong and upright flower stems, each of which carries up to 15 flowers which are large and single in form and an intense red-purple in color, profuse flowering, vigorous growth habit, and by its attractive dark green leaves.
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I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of African violet plant named Improved North Carolina, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its very strong and upright flower stems, each of which carries up to 15 flowers which are large and single in form and an intense red-purple in color, profuse flowering, vigorous growth habit, and by its attractive dark green leaves.
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