US Plant Patent PP5543
Marguerite
African Violet plant named Marguerite
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 7, 2003. 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
- PP5543
- Filed
- October 7, 1983
- Granted
- August 27, 1985
- Expires
- October 7, 2003
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of African violet particularly characterized by its large pink ruffled flowers that are star-shaped and actinomorphic rotate, compact rosette habit, with the flowers being carried on upright peduncles, floriferous habit, and its pleasantly contrasting dark green foliage.
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 Marguerite, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its large pink ruffled flowers that are star-shaped and actinomorphic rotate; compact rosette habit, with the flowers being carried on upright peduncles; floriferous habit, and its pleasantly contrasting dark green foliage.
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