US Plant Patent PP4578
Pamela
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 23, 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
- PP4578
- Filed
- March 23, 1979
- Granted
- July 22, 1980
- Expires
- March 23, 1999
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP SR HERMANN
Abstract
An African violet having vigorous growth habit; strong and upright flower stems, each carrying 7-9 large single star-shaped purple-violet flowers; prominent bright yellow anther cells, and by its round to heart-shaped leaves carried on strong petioles.
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 shown and described, characterized by the combined features of vigorous growth habit; strong and upright flower stems, each carrying 7-9 large single star-shaped purple-violet flowers; prominent bright yellow anther cells, and by its round to heart-shaped leaves carried on strong petioles.
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