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US Plant Patent PP10747

A7

Anthurium plant `A7`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 19, 2017. 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
PP10747
Filed
May 19, 1997
Granted
January 5, 1999
Expires
May 19, 2017
Inventor
OSIECKI MARIAN W

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Anthurium is provided. It is a medium to large size plant, suitable for production in 15 cm to 25 cm pots from a single tissue culture produced microcutting with vigorous growth, early and year-round flowering. Striking, large, red, glossy spathes are carried on thick, strong, distally red-brown peduncles mostly above foliage and sharply contrast with dark green, glossy, large, thick leaves.

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 Anthurium plant named `A7`, substantially as described and illustrated herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by its medium to large size; relatively open growth habit; vigorous growth; large, thick, dark, glossy leaves; early, year-round flowering; large, red, glossy, long-lasting spathes carried on thick, strong, distally red-brown peduncles mostly above foliage and by greyed-purple spadixes.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10747 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.