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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
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.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4373 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.