US Plant Patent PP4373
Alabama
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 31, 1998. 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
- PP4373
- Filed
- May 31, 1978
- Granted
- February 6, 1979
- Expires
- May 31, 1998
- Assignee
- GESELLSCHAFTSVERTRAG UBER DIE
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African Violet known by the cultivar name Alabama and particularly characterized by its flower color, which is predominantly white, with blue-purple centers and edges, wavy and frilled flower edges; vigorous growth habit, and by its flower production, with up to 10 individual flowers being carried on each flower stem.
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 known by the cultivar name Alabama and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by its flower color, which is predominantly white, with blue-purple centers and edges; wavy and frilled flowr edges; vigorous growth habit, and by its flower production, with up to 10 individual flowers being carried on each flower stem.
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