US Plant Patent PP4777
South Carolina
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 25, 2000. 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
- PP4777
- Filed
- July 25, 1980
- Granted
- October 13, 1981
- Expires
- July 25, 2000
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet named South Carolina, particularly characterized by its vigorous growth habit; intensive green leaves; strong upright flower stems; large star-shaped white flowers, with wavy petal edges, and by its floriferous corolla, which is positioned well above the leaves.
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 South Carolina, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its vigorous growth habit; intensive green leaves; strong upright flower stems; large star-shaped white flowers, with wavy petal edges, and by its floriferous corolla, which is positioned well above the leaves.
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