US Plant Patent PP6549
Lanai
African violet plant named Lanai
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
- PP6549
- Filed
- June 1, 1987
- Granted
- January 24, 1989
- Expires
- June 1, 2007
Abstract
An African violet plant named Lanai, characterized by its single violet-shaped purple flowers, occasionally semi-double, with fine white edge, slightly frilled; strong upright flower stems, forming a tight bouquet above the leaves; profuse flowering; vigorous growth habit; medium green, serrated, spear-shaped 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 Lanai, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its single violet-shaped purple flowers, occasionally semi-double, with fine white edge, slightly frilled; strong upright flower stems, forming a tight bouquet above the leaves; profuse flowering; vigorous growth habit; medium green, serrated, spear-shaped leaves; and long lasting and non-dropping flowering habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6549 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.