US Plant Patent PP4875
Atlanta
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
- PP4875
- Filed
- July 25, 1980
- Granted
- August 10, 1982
- Expires
- July 25, 2000
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet known by the cultivar name Atlanta having light pink flower color, medium to dark green variegated leaves, with contrasting light green centers; upright and rigid stems; floriferous habit, with 7-12 flowers appearing on each stem, and uniform and compact growth habit.
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 Atlanta, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its light pink flower color, medium to dark green variegated leaves, with contrasting light green centers; upright and rigid stems; floriferous habit, with 7-12 flowers appearing on each stem, and by its uniform and compact growth habit.
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