US Plant Patent PP5534
Sugar Plum
African violet plant named Sugar Plum
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
- PP5534
- Filed
- October 7, 1983
- Granted
- August 13, 1985
- Expires
- October 7, 2003
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of African violet named Sugar Plum, particularly characterized by its floriferous, continuous blooming flower habit, two-toned lavender flower color, with the top two petals being darker than the lower three, with each flower being edged in white, and its compact rosette bouquet on erect peduncles above the 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 Sugar Plum, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its floriferous, continuous blooming flower habit; two-toned lavender flower color, with the top two petals being darker than the lower three, with each flower being edged in white, and its compact rosette bouquet on erect peduncles above dark green foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5534 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.