US Plant Patent PP6349
Bougainvillea Torch Glow
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 31, 2006. 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
- PP6349
- Filed
- July 31, 1986
- Granted
- October 25, 1988
- Expires
- July 31, 2006
- Inventor
- INGWERSEN JACK D; TOMLINSON WILLIAM M
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 bougainvillea Torch Glow plant which is defined by a unique torch-like floral arrangement formed along the substantially upright branching of the shrub that is compact in its branching and has dense foliage with the flowers being borne in dense oppositely branched cymes, which are axillary and are borne in the axils of almost all leaves from near the apex of the branch to from ten to forty centimeters down the branch, giving the appearance of a cylindrical spike, and wherein the roots are much thicker and more succulent than typical for bougainvillea.
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 variety of bougainvillea plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particulary as to novelty by the unique torch-like floral arrangement formed along the substantially upright branching of the shrub that is compact in its branching and has dense foliage with the flowers being borne in dense oppositely branched cymes, which are axillary and are borne in the axils of almost all leaves from near the apex of the branch to ten to forty centimeters down the branch, giving the appearance of a cylindrical spike and including a highly succulent root system.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6349 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.