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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
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.