US Plant Patent PP10932
Evista
Clematis plant named `Evista`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 17, 2017. 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
- PP10932
- Filed
- October 17, 1997
- Granted
- June 1, 1999
- Expires
- October 17, 2017
- Assignee
- POULSEN ROSER INTERNATIONAL SA
- Inventor
- EVISON RAYMOND J; OLESEN MOGENS N
Abstract
A new compact Clemantis cultivar which produces large, full, purple flowers which have a darker purple central bar and yellow flower center. The cultivar is compact, climbing, and clinging and flowers well in spring and late summer. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for ornamental use in outdoor settings in a variety of climatic conditions. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from propagation.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Clematis plant, substantially as herein shown and detailed, as a distinct and novel clematis variety due to its abundant large violet-purple striped flowers with yellow center, good keepability, attractive long lasting foliage and compact growth, suitability for production from softwood cuttings in pots, durable flowers and foliage which make the variety suitable for distribution in the nursery industry.
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