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US Plant Patent PP6645

Sweetheart

African violet plant named Sweetheart

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 13, 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
PP6645
Filed
August 13, 1987
Granted
March 7, 1989
Expires
August 13, 2007

Abstract

A cultivar of African violet named Sweetheart, characterized by its large single bicolor flowers which are mainly pale pink-lavender with a darker lavender-pink on the edges, medium green leaves, compact habit, and by its floriferousness.

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 Sweetheart, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its large single bicolor flowers which are mainly pale pink-lavender with a darker lavender-pink on the edges, medium green leaves, compact habit, and by its floriferousness.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6645 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.