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US Plant Patent PP5129

Nebraska

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
PP5129
Filed
September 9, 1981
Granted
November 1, 1983
Expires
September 9, 2001
Inventor
HOLTKAMP REINHOLD

Abstract

A new cultivar of African violet known by the cultivar name Nebraska and having attractive semi-double to double orchid purple blossoms with partly white edges, with the edges being heavily frilled. There are 7-9 slightly tilted flower stems, each of which carries eleven or more flowers, thereby presenting a relatively loose flower head. The petals are long lasting and non-dropping.

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 Nebraska, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined features of semi-double to double orchid purple blossoms with heavily frilled and partly to totally white edges; 7-9 slightly tilted flower stems, each of which contains eleven or more flowers; uniform growth; saleability with loose corolla within 10 weeks after potting, and its long lasting and non-dropping petals.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5129 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.