US Plant Patent PP5712
Zelanon
Alstroemeria named Zelanon
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 19, 2004. 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
- PP5712
- Filed
- September 19, 1984
- Granted
- April 8, 1986
- Expires
- September 19, 2004
- Assignee
- J VAN ZELDEREN & ZN
- Inventor
- VAN ZELDEREN GERARD J
Abstract
A new alstroemeria variety characterized by the distinctive coloration of its large blossoms with numerous longitudinal flecks or streaks of purple in the marginal areas of the outer petals and throughout the entire areas of the inner petals. The inner petals are of a white background color and the outer petals have background colors of white in their marginal areas and light purple in their central areas. The plant is also characterized by its upright and vigorous growth habit and the continuous production of flowers on its umbel arrangement of branches during each of its blooming seasons.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive alstroemeria cultivar, substantially as shown and described, characterized by the distinctive coloration and continuous production of its large blossoms with their white outer petals having marginal areas with numerous longitudinal streaks of purple and central areas shaded in lighter purple, and with their white inner petals having numerous longitudinal streaks of purple throughout.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5712 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.