US Plant Patent PP4634
King Cardinal
Alstroemeria plant named King Cardinal
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 23, 1999. 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
- PP4634
- Filed
- April 23, 1979
- Granted
- January 27, 1981
- Expires
- April 23, 1999
- Inventor
- VAN STAAVEREN M C
Abstract
A new variety of Alstroemeria plant characterized by a profuse production of very large, deep red flowers borne on long stems, each of the successively opening flowers having 7 to 10 day lasting quality and the plant blooming recurrently first in early Spring and again in Fall.
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 herein shown and described, characterized by the large size of its red flowers appearing on very long and strong raceme stems and by its vigorous growth and profuse flower production.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4634 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.