US Plant Patent PP7280
Blc. Mem. Ralph Placentia C.V. Toreador
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 25, 2008. 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
- PP7280
- Filed
- November 25, 1988
- Granted
- July 24, 1990
- Expires
- November 25, 2008
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of orchid and more particularly a Brasso-laeliocattleya (Blc.) hybrid plant which is outstanding and distinct from other orchids because of its superior flowers, which combine a rare coloring, massive size, and strong carriage of flowers on a single stem. The coloring is an exceptionally warm dark rose-purple with a brilliant darker labellum shaded and veined yellow in the throat. The new variety is also distinctive from its siblings in the grex population and similar hybrids by its outstanding plant vigor. The flowers are of exceptional substance with thicker and more rigid petals than siblings of the grex. They are perfectly placed on the stem, with stem superior to its relatives in strength. The flowers have a longer bloom life and are produced more abundantly than orchids of similar breeding.
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 variety of a hybrid Brassolaeliocattleya orchid, substantially as described and illustrated herein which is distinguished from siblings of this grex Blc. Mem. Ralph Placentia and other orchids by its combination of intense, dark, ruby-purple flower color, superior flower substance, size and strength in stem structure, and vigorous, reliable uniform blooming.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7280 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.