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US Plant Patent PP8120

Vienna

African violet plant named Vienna

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 26, 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
PP8120
Filed
July 26, 1991
Granted
February 2, 1993
Expires
July 26, 2011

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of African violet named Vienna characterized by its extra growth habit (35-45 cm in diameter); purplish blue, single violet-shaped flowers; strong stems which curve toward the center to form a bouquet above the leaves; profuse flowering; large, medium green, spear-shaped leaves; flowing 12-13 weeks after planting of unrooted shoot, and by its long lasting and non-dropping flowers.

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 Vienna, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its extra large growth habit (35-45 cm in diameter); purplish blue, single violet-shaped flowers; strong stems which curve toward the center to form a bouquet above the leaves; profuse flowering; large, medium green, spear-shaped leaves; flowering 12-13 weeks after planting of unrooted shoot, and by its long lasting and non-dropping flowers.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8120 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.