US Plant Patent PP9051
68814
Dieffenbachia named 68814
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 15, 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
- PP9051
- Filed
- November 15, 1993
- Granted
- January 31, 1995
- Expires
- November 15, 2013
- Assignee
- FLORIDA FOUND SEED PRODUCERS INC
- Inventor
- HENNY RICHARD J
Abstract
A Dieffenbachia cultivar having a unique leaf shape of long narrow configuration projecting from the main shoot in a star-like pattern, the leaves themselves having upper surface variegated coloration.
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 Dieffenbachia plant, substantially as shown and described herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by its unique, long, narrow leaves projecting outwardly from the main shoot in a star-like pattern, its leaves being several times as long as wide, its variegated foliage of three colors on the upper leaf surface, the colors being dark green margins, areas of dark green, lighter green and almost white blotches and spots over the surface of the leaves, its green-white petioles, and its full appearance beneath the main shoot.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9051 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.