US Plant Patent PP8791
Revelation
Chamelaucium (waxflower) plant named Revelation
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 23, 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
- PP8791
- Filed
- August 23, 1993
- Granted
- June 21, 1994
- Expires
- August 23, 2013
- Assignee
- NEW WORLD PLANTS LTD
- Inventor
- JACK BRIAN; SYME VICTORIA
Abstract
A new and distinct interspecific Chamelaucium hybrid variety of shrub (known popularly as waxflower or Geraldton waxflower) particularly distinguished by its unique ability to change its initial flower petal color from white at anthesis to violet/mauve in the course of five to seven days, its ability to hold open its flowers for an extended period of time, its excellent post-harvest performance as a fresh cut flower and its unique and very striking floral display with flowers of different colors present at the same time. The new plant is further distinguished by its profuse spring blooming habit, vigor and strong erect growth.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinctive variety of Chamelaucium interspecific hybrid plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized in particular by flowers with petals changing color from white at anthesis to violet/mauve at maturity and by having flowers of different colors present at the same time.
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