US Plant Patent PP8541
Streeter
Cattleya loddigesii var. Harrisoniana Streeter's Choice FCC/AOS
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 4, 2013. 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
- PP8541
- Filed
- January 4, 1993
- Granted
- January 11, 1994
- Expires
- January 4, 2013
- Assignee
- STREETER ROBERT J
- Inventor
- STREETER ROBERT J
Abstract
The subject of this application is a new and distinct variety of orchid, resulting from a mutation of a plant in a tissue cultured population of C. loddigesii var. Harrisoniana. The cultivar of the application is outstanding because of its superior flower quality to all of the same market and botanical class which combines heavy texture with its glowing sheen of rose-lavender petals and white-cream labellum tipped with lavender. The shape of the flower is superior to all equivalent cultivars of this species. Because of its exceptional substance the flowers have a longer bloom life than all other cultivars of the species.
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 variety of Cattleya loddigesii orchid plant, substantially as described and illustrated, resulting as a somoclonal variation from tissue culture of `Harrisoniana`, which is particularly distinguished from its parent and other members of the market and botanical class by having superior heavy flower texture: and by having larger, flatter, and more rounded flower segments which render longer lasting flowers.
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