US Plant Patent PP5136
Monvin
Cortaderia `Monvin`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 21, 2002. 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
- PP5136
- Filed
- January 21, 1982
- Granted
- November 8, 1983
- Expires
- January 21, 2002
- Assignee
- MONROVIA NURSERY CO
- Inventor
- ESPINOSA GAVIN
Abstract
A new and distinct selection of Cortaderia selloana (popularly known as pampas grass) and referred to as Cortaderia selloana `Monvin`. A selection with important characteristics of a green and yellow variegation pattern throughout its leaves and possessing a more dwarf overall height and slower growth than the unselected Cortaderia selloana. Another distinguishing character of Cortaderia selloana `Monvin` are the strictly female inflorescences which are more showy than the male inflorescences that could be found on seedlings.
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 Cortaderia selloana as substantially shown and described herein, that is a superior selection characterized by a unique leaf variegation pattern, a more dwarf-like plant and a female clone which can be relied upon to produce a more showy plume-like inflorescence.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5136 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.