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US Plant Patent PP12379

Reverend Schusler

Datura plant named ‘Reverend Schusler’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 13, 2019. 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.

Figure 3 of US plant patent PP12379, the photograph of Reverend Schusler printed in the patent.
Figure 3 from US Plant Patent PP12379, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP12379
Filed
September 13, 1999
Granted
January 29, 2002
Expires
September 13, 2019
Inventor
SCHUSLER MARK JOSEPH

Abstract

A new cultivar of Datura plant named ‘Reverend Schusler’ characterized and distinguished from other Daturas by its uniquely colored foliage consisting of creamy yellow, yellow-white, grey-green and dark green patches with purplish coloration on the underside of the new growth (during cooler weather), the variegation extending to the sepals of the flowers, and the ovary, resulting in the fruit being white, yellow and green variegated; foliage and fruit being borne on purplish, tomentose stems, the sweetly fragrant flowers being a light lavender in color when young turning white as they mature.

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 cultivar of Datura plant named ‘Reverend Schusler’, as illustrated and described, characterized by having variegated foliage, variegated calyxes, and variegated fruit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12379 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.