US Plant Patent PP4374
Arizona
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
- PP4374
- Filed
- May 31, 1978
- Granted
- February 6, 1979
- Expires
- May 31, 1998
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African Violet known by the cultivar name Arizona, characterized by dark green leaves and strong upright peduncles each of which carries 10-12 individual flowers; generally red-purple flower color, with a tendency toward lighter streaking in the petals extending generally radially in the petal from the center of the flower, with the flowers being non-dropping, and having a prolific flowering characteristic which provides a full and tight bouquet above the 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 plant characterized by the combined characteristics of dark green leaves and strong upright peduncles each of which carries 10-12 individual flowers; generally red-purple flower color, with a tendency toward lighter streaking in the petals extending generally radially in the petal from the center of the flower, with the flowers being non-dropping and comprised of three relatively larger petals and two relatively smaller petals which together form a generally symmetrical flower appearance, and by its prolific flowering characteristic which provides a full and tight bouquet above the foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4374 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.