US Plant Patent PP5735
Zelido
Alstroemeria named Zelido
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
- PP5735
- Filed
- September 19, 1984
- Granted
- May 6, 1986
- Expires
- September 19, 2004
- Assignee
- J VAN ZELDEREN & ZN
- Inventor
- VAN ZELDEREN GERALD J
Abstract
A new alstroemeria variety characterized by the distinctive coloration of its large blossoms with their petals having numerous, sharply-defined, longitudinal flecks or streaks of red-purple against a predominately white background, the outer petals also having central areas shaded in lighter red-purple, and by its upright and vigorous growth habit and 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 petals having numerous longitudinal streaks of red-purple against a predominately white background and with the outer petals also having central areas of a lighter red-purple background.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5735 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.