US Plant Patent PP20039
Cascada Desiertica
Calliandra hybrid ‘Cascada Desiertica’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends February 4, 2028.
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
- PP20039
- Filed
- February 4, 2008
- Granted
- May 26, 2009
- Expires
- February 4, 2028
- Assignee
- DESERT TREE FARM
- Inventor
- CELESTIAN SARAH
Abstract
The present invention is a new and unique variety of Calliandra californica. This Calliandra occurred as a mutant seedling and is designated ‘Cascada Desiertica’ as a cultivar name and is trademarked as SARITA™. ‘Cascada Desiertica’ differs from the parent plants as well as other plants of this genus by exhibiting a strongly prostrate growth habit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct cultivar of Calliandra californica plant having the characteristics substantially as described and illustrated herein.
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