US Plant Patent PP8874
Dark Blue Butterfly
Aster plant named Dark Blue Butterfly
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 21, 2013. 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
- PP8874
- Filed
- January 21, 1993
- Granted
- August 30, 1994
- Expires
- January 21, 2013
- Assignee
- DENACHTVLINDER B V
- Inventor
- TVRTKOVIC-SAHIN ZELIMIR K; AKERBOOM PETRUS J
Abstract
A distinct cultivar of aster plant named Dark Blue Butterfly, characterized by its cupped capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; dark violet-blue ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 27 to 30 mm at maturity; strong, well branched flower stems; dark green leaves, and many capitula per inflorescence on short pedicels.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct Aster plant named Dark Blue Butterfly, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8874 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.