US Plant Patent PP5025
Margit
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
- PP5025
- 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 Margit having numerous relatively small leaves and a profuse flowering corolla. Violet blossoms are carried on very upright and strong flower stems, the center of each blossom being relatively darker, velvety and shiny. The variety has a uniform growth habit, and provides an attractive saleable plant within 7-9 weeks after potting, with flowering being essentially continuous.
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 Margit, and particularly characterized by the combined features of compact growth with relatively small leaves, very upright and strong flower stems which form a compact and profuse corolla; nine or more flower stems, with 6-9 or more violet flowers per stem, center of flower is relatively darker, velvety and shiny; uniform growth habit; almost continuous flowering, and by its ability to provide an attractive saleable plant with a compact corolla within 7-9 weeks after potting.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5025 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.