US Plant Patent PP4073
Roulette
Begonia plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 5, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 1, 1996, but this patent ends 697 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4073
- Filed
- June 1, 1976
- Granted
- July 5, 1977
- Expires
- July 5, 1994
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- WOODRIFF LESLIE
Abstract
1. A new and distinct cultivar of begonia plant known by the cultivar name Roulette and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of foliage which has an overall ruffled or wavy appearance and which is dark green mottled with yellow-green patches between the veins, and a hairy texture on the margins of the leaves; the leaf petiole often forms a coalesced multi-cylindrical effect at the base of the leaf formed by the fusion of the leaf veins from the two opposite spirals; leaf size of up to 10 cm. wide and up to 8 cm. deep when laid out flat; parted leaf margin with two based lobes that spiral; plant height of upward to 12-15 cm.; very light pink to nearly white flowers, and by its efficient propagation by leaf cuttings.
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I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of begonia plant known by the cultivar name Roulette and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of foliage which has an overall ruffled or wavy appearance and which is dark green mottled with yellow-green patches between the veins, and a hairy texture on the margins of the leaves; the leaf petiole often forms a coalesced multi-cylindrical effect at the base of the leaf formed by the fusion of the leaf veins from the two opposite spirals; leaf size of up to 10 cm. wide and up to 8 cm. deep when laid out flat; parted leaf margin with two based lobes that spiral; plant height of upward to 12-15 cm.; very light pink to nearly white flowers, and by its efficient propagation by leaf cuttings.
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