US Plant Patent PP8282
Mara
African violet plant named Mara
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 4, 2011. 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
- PP8282
- Filed
- October 4, 1991
- Granted
- June 29, 1993
- Expires
- October 4, 2011
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of African violet named Mara is provided. This cultivar exhibits a compact rosette growth habit, dark green pubescent foliage, and forms in abundance on upright peduncles attractive single zygomorphic-rotate bicolored flowers which are medium violet-blue with white undulated petal margins. The plant advantageously has a very floriferous habit with the flowering continuing for many weeks following its onset. Dark green pubescent foliage is formed comprising oval leaves with a waxy overall surface, a repand and crenate margin, a broad apex, and a cordate base. Susceptibility to African violet diseases has not been observed to date.
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I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of African violet plant named Mara characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms attractive bicolored medium violet-blue single zygomorphic-rotate flowers having white undulated petal margins, (b) forms dark green pubescent foliage comprising oval leaves with a wavy overall surface, a repand and crenate margin, a broad apex, and a cordate base, (c) exhibits a compact rosette growth habit with the flowers being held erect above the foliage on upright strong greyed-red peduncles at the center of the plant, and (d) exhibits a very floriferous habit with flowers continuing to open for many weeks after the onset of flowering; substantially as herein shown and described.
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