US Plant Patent PP7303
Agapanthus elaine plant
Agapanthus elaine plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 21, 2009. 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
- PP7303
- Filed
- February 21, 1989
- Granted
- August 21, 1990
- Expires
- February 21, 2009
Abstract
An Asapanthus elaine plant which is defined by its exceptional vigor and having large heads of dark blue-violet flowers on scapes well exceeding the relatively compact foliage, and when in flower, will reach an overall height of 13 dm, and wherein the present plant differs from other Agapanthus selections in that it is provided with large dense umbel of very dark violet-blue flowers in combination with very broad robust foliage, with the flowers ranging from 4.0-4.2 cm in length and 2.2-2.4 cm across at the apex thereof when fully expanded.
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 variety of Agapanthus plant substantially as shown and described characterized by its ability to reach a height of 13 dm when in flower, which includes slender glaucesent scape that reach to a maximum height of 11.1 dm, and having a hardy upright growth habit along with prominent dark blue-violet flowers which are slightly zygomorphic from the cylindrical base and with each flower being composed of six segments arranged in two whorls of three defined by a narrower outer pair, the flowers ranging from 4.0-4.2 cm long, and 2.2-2.5 cm across at the apex when fully expanded with the leaves being formed having veins closely spaced about 2 mm apart near the center of the leaves which are thick-textured but pliable and reach a maximum length of 60 cm long and range from 5.6-6.3 cm wide.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7303 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.