US Plant Patent PP9693
Silvia
Calathea plant named `Silvia`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 2, 2015. 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
- PP9693
- Filed
- August 2, 1995
- Granted
- November 12, 1996
- Expires
- August 2, 2015
- Assignee
- RIJN PLANTS VAN
- Inventor
- VAN RIJN MAGDALENA J M
Abstract
A Calathea plant named `Silvia` having oval leaves. Young leaves have a purple-red center and mature leaves are bright green with weak purple-red strips parallel to the primary veins which are close to the base of the leaf. The center is bordered by a very dark green margin. The lower side is dull purple-red.
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 cultivar of Calathea plant named `Silvia,` as illustrated and described.
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