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US Plant Patent PP9221

Katrijn

Cordyline plant named `Katrijn`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 22, 2014. 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
PP9221
Filed
September 22, 1994
Granted
July 25, 1995
Expires
September 22, 2014
Inventor
DEROOSE REGINALD

Abstract

A Cordyline plant named Katrijn, primarily characterized by its uniquely variegated leaves. Young leaves are of yellow-green variegation with an ivory-white margin and pink edge. As the leaves mature, the green becomes darker and the stripes change mainly to medium to dark red-purple with some pink. Between young and mature leaves, the color variation is striking.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Cordyline plant named Katrijn, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9221 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.