US Plant Patent PP8800
Picolo
Cordyline plant--Picolo variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 12, 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
- PP8800
- Filed
- February 12, 1993
- Granted
- June 21, 1994
- Expires
- February 12, 2013
- Assignee
- HANDELSKWEKERIJ VAN DER VELDEN
- Inventor
- VAN DER VELDEN PETRUS J L
Abstract
A new and distinctive variety within the Liliaceae family, botanically known as Cordyline fruticosa is provided. The new variety originated as a mutation of the Red Edge variety (non-patented in the United States) and exhibits a more compact growth habit (as illustrated) than its parent. The internode lengths of the new variety are less as are the leaf lengths and widths. The new variety serves well as an attractive ornamental pot plant and has been named the Picolo variety.
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 Cordyline fruticosa having the following combination of characteristics: (a) exhibits a bi-colored leaf coloration that is substantially identical to that of the Red Edge variety when grown under comparable growing conditions, (b) exhibits a dwarf growth habit that is absent in the Red Edge variety, (c) exhibits leaves that better resist leaf tip burning than the leaves of the Red Edge variety, (d) exhibits shorter internode lengths, shorter leaf lengths and shorter leaf widths than the Red Edge variety, (e) exhibits a shorter leaf stalk that tends to be more gutter-shaped than that of the Red Edge variety, and (f) is particularly well suited for growing as an ornamental pot plant; substantially as illustrated as described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8800 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.