US Plant Patent PP5892
Cactaceae plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 30, 2005. 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
- PP5892
- Filed
- May 30, 1985
- Granted
- February 24, 1987
- Expires
- May 30, 2005
- Assignee
- B L COBIA INC
- Inventor
- COBIA BARNELL L
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 plant variety of the Cactaceae family which is sterile and in comparison to the `Christmas Magic` variety is principally distinguished by a growth habit which includes a greater natural tendency for branching without the need for pruning, a greater resistance to nutrient deficiencies, a greater resistance to stem breakage, a slightly lesser resistance to bud abscission, a habit of producing more blooms on specimens of comparable age at an earlier date in the blooming season and with a slightly longer bloom life, and a habit of producing blooms with a fuller bodied appearance and enhanced color.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family as described and illustrated herein and which is principally distinguished by a growth habit combining the following characteristics: (1) a greater natural tendency for branching without the need for pruning than the `Christmas Magic` variety, (2) a greater resistance to nutrient deficiencies than the `Christmas Magic` variety, (3) a greater resistance to stem breakage than the `Christmas Magic` variety, (4) a slightly lesser resistance to bud abscission than the `Christmas Magic` variety, (5) a habit of producing more blooms on specimens of comparable age at an earlier date in the blooming season, and with a slightly longer bloom life than the `Christmas Magic` variety, (6) a habit of producing blooms with a substantially larger number of tepals in the tube laminating series of tepals, and with tepals in the tube laminating and tube forming series of tepals which average slightly greater width dimensions in comparison to the `Christmas Magic` variety, (7) a bloom with more uniform and greater coverage of the marginal and center field areas of the blades of the tube forming and tube laminating series of tepals with color dominated by purplish red and/or reddish purplish hues in comparison to the `Christmas Magic` variety, (8) sterile specimens.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5892 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.