US Plant Patent PP6525
Molokai
African violet plant named Molokai
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
- PP6525
- Filed
- June 1, 1987
- Granted
- January 10, 1989
- Expires
- June 1, 2007
Abstract
An African violet plant named Molokai, characterized by its light violet blue flowers which have a darker center and which fade out to a white edge; first flash of flowers forming a tight bouquet above the leaves on strong upright flower stems curving toward the center; profuse flowering; vigorous growth habit; dark green, serrated, velvety leaves, slightly hairy; 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 Molokai, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its light violet blue flowers which have a darker center and which fade out to a white edge; first flash of flowers forming a tight bouquet above the leaves on strong upright flower stems curving toward the center; profuse flowering; vigorous growth habit; dark green, serrated, velvety leaves, slightly hairy; and long lasting and non-dropping flowering habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6525 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.