US Plant Patent PP5022
Wyoming
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 9, 2001. 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
- PP5022
- Filed
- September 9, 1981
- Granted
- April 5, 1983
- Expires
- September 9, 2001
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
A new cultivar of African violet known by the cultivar name Wyoming characterized by its strong and sturdy flower stems which are tilted slightly sidewards forming a loose flower head, with the blossoms being blue-violet in color, and the center of the blossoms being relatively darker, velvety and shiny. The plant is uniform in growth and has a profuse corolla of essentially continuously blooming flowers which are non-dropping and long-lasting.
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 Wyoming and particularly characterized by the combined features of compact growth habit with relatively small leaves; upright, strong and sturdy stems which tilt slightly sidewards, forming a profuse, loose flower head; 9 or more flower stems, with 9 or more blue and continuously blooming flowers appearing on each stem, with the center of each flower being relatively darker, velvety and shiny; uniform growth habit; attractive saleable plant with compact flower head within 7-8 weeks after potting, and by its non-dropping and long lasting blossoms.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5022 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.