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US Plant Patent PP6111

Laurie

African violet plant named Laurie

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 28, 2006. 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
PP6111
Filed
January 28, 1986
Granted
February 23, 1988
Expires
January 28, 2006
Inventor
HOLTKAMP SR REINHOLD

Abstract

An African violet plant named Laurie having purple-pink flower color which is a more intense purple in the center; very prominent and bright yellow anthers which create a very good contrast with the flower color; profuse flowering; vigorous growth habit and early flowering; and long-lasting, non-dropping flowers which form a tight flower head above the 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 named Laurie, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its purple-pink flower color which is a more intense purple in the center; very prominent and bright yellow anthers which create a very good contrast with the flower color; profuse flowering; vigorous growth habit and early flowering; and by its long-lasting, non-dropping flowers which form a tight flower head above the leaves.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6111 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.