US Plant Patent PP10140
39303
Aglaonema plant named `39303`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 23, 2016. 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
- PP10140
- Filed
- April 23, 1996
- Granted
- December 2, 1997
- Expires
- April 23, 2016
- Assignee
- FLORIDA FOUND SEED PRODUCERS INC
- Inventor
- HENNY RICHARD J
Abstract
There is disclosed a representative plant of Aglaonema designated `39303` which is one displaying variegated foliage consisting of three colors on the upper leaf surface, comprising dark green leaf margins that connect to a lighter grey-colored central area in an irregular pattern that often overlaps to produce small irregular patches of a third distinct foliar color of grey-green; leaf midrib and major lateral veins having showy greyed-yellow tint that highlights the other leaf colors; and a white petiole which accents the leaf coloration.
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 Aglaonema as shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the attractive and distinct variegated foliage consisting of three colors on the upper leaf surface, comprising dark green leaf margins that connect to a lighter grey-colored central area in an irregular pattern that often overlaps to produce small irregular patches of a third distinct foliar color of grey-green; leaf midrib and major lateral veins having showy greyed-yellow tint that highlights the other leaf colors; and a white petiole which accents the leaf coloration.
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