US Plant Patent PP4532
Boston
African Violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 8, 1999. 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
- PP4532
- Filed
- January 8, 1979
- Granted
- May 6, 1980
- Expires
- January 8, 1999
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African Violet known by the cultivar name Boston having strong upright stems carrying intensive pink flowers having frilled edges; compact and vigorous growth habit, and leaves which are cupped to form a flat funnel, with the leaves having serrated edges and light-green centers.
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, as described and illustrated, known by the cultivar name Boston and characterized by the combined features of strong upright stems carrying intensive pink flowers having frilled edges; compact and vigorous growth habit, and by its leaves which are cupped to form a flat funnel, with the leaves having serrated edges and light green centers.
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