US Plant Patent PP4533
Nashville
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
- PP4533
- Filed
- January 8, 1979
- Granted
- May 6, 1980
- Expires
- January 8, 1999
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African Violet referred to by the cultivar name Nashville having compact and vigorous growth habits; red-purple, frilled, non-dropping flowers; strong and upright stems; relatively quick saleability due to its vigorous growth habit, and by its generally funnel-shaped leaves having 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, referred to by the cultivar name Nashville and particularly characterized by the combined features of compact and vigorous growth habits; red-purple, frilled, non-dropping flowers; strong and upright stems; relatively quick saleability due to its vigorous growth habit, and by its generally funnel-shaped leaves having light-green centers.
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