US Plant Patent PP4870
Illinois
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
- PP4870
- Filed
- July 25, 1980
- Granted
- July 27, 1982
- Expires
- July 25, 2000
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet named Illinois, particularly characterized by its large pink, star-shaped flowers; strong, upright flower stems each carrying 7-10 flowers; heavy and prominent yellow pollen sacs; vigorous and uniform growth habit, producing a plant in full flower in 9-10 weeks.
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 Illinois, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its large pink, star-shaped flowers; strong, upright flower stems each carrying 7-10 flowers; heavy and prominent yellow pollen sacs; vigorous and uniform growth habit, producing a plant in full flower in 9-10 weeks.
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