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US Plant Patent PP15387

Lianca

Calliandra plant named ‘Lianca’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 5, 2023. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15387, the photograph of Lianca printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15387, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP15387
Filed
November 5, 2003
Granted
November 30, 2004
Expires
November 5, 2023
Inventor
GASS RONALD E

Abstract

A new and distinct hybrid of the genus Calliandra is provided. This hybrid has been name ‘Lianca’ for a cultivar name and is trademarked as Sierra Starr™. The new variety is a product of a deliberate cross of Calliandra eriophylla and Calliandra californica made in 1982. Seeds from this cross were saved and planted. The new variety was selected from a block of these hybrid seedlings. The new variety displays a distinctly different flower color previously unavailable in the genus.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of Calliandra plant as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15387 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.