US Plant Patent PP5193
Fairy Princess
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 21, 2002. 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
- PP5193
- Filed
- June 21, 1982
- Granted
- February 21, 1984
- Expires
- June 21, 2002
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD
Abstract
A vigorous and profusely flowering African violet known by the cultivar name Fairy Princess and having flowers which range in color from essentially solid purple to essentially entirely white and ranges of variegation therebetween, with the flowers being carried on erect peduncles to form a massive bouquet above the foliage.
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 Fairy Princess, and described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its profuse flowering and vigorous growth habit, with the flowers being held above the foliage on erect peduncles to form a massive colorful bouquet, its flowers which range in color from essentially entirely purple to entirely white, and all ranges of variegation of these colors.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5193 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.