US Plant Patent PP7544
Firefly
Anigozanthos hybrid variety `Firefly`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 27, 2009. 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
- PP7544
- Filed
- October 27, 1989
- Granted
- June 4, 1991
- Expires
- October 27, 2009
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Anigozanthos hybrid characterized by the combination of: arching leaves; average flowering stem length of 28 cm; a flower with a yellow-green perianth flaring distally; a yellow ovary covered with red hairs and a style ending below the anthers; and comes into flower all year round when propagated by tissue culture.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim the following: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Anigozanthos hybrid known by the cultivar name "Firefly" and characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of arching leaves, average flower stem length of 28 cm, a flower with a yellow-green perianth flaring distally, a yellow ovary covered with red hairs and a style ending below the anthers and comes into flower all year round when propagated from tissue culture.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7544 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.