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US Plant Patent PP8696

Montreux

Alstroemeria named Montreux

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 24, 2013. 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
PP8696
Filed
March 24, 1993
Granted
April 19, 1994
Expires
March 24, 2013
Inventor
DE JONG CORNELIS T J

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Alstroemeria plant named Montreux, characterized by its distinctive predominantly purple flower with outer petals having green tips, moderate red-brown spotting concentrated in area around the green tips, moderate dark purple streaking; the top inner petals are lighter purple at the base, purple at the apex and have a creamy-yellowish band; patterns of numerous dark purple elongated stripes, on the top two inner petals; and, with the bottom inner petal being purple with dark purple streaking.

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 Alstroemeria named Montreux, as illustrated and described herein, characterized by its distinctive purple outer petals with moderate dark purple streaking and fine red-brown spotting in area around the green tips, and distinguished by the creamy-yellow and purple color with darker purple streaking of the two top inner petals.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8696 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.