US Plant Patent PP9782
Tropic Breeze
Dieffenbachia plant named `Tropic Breeze`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 17, 2015. 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
- PP9782
- Filed
- April 17, 1995
- Granted
- January 14, 1997
- Expires
- April 17, 2015
- Assignee
- TWYFORD INT INC
- Inventor
- FRAZER EDWIN J
Abstract
A dieffenbachia plant named Tropic Breeze characterized by its long narrow elliptical leaves abundantly marked with yellow-green, white, and dark green visible from both sides of the leaf. The colors darken as the leaf ages. The habit is branched, rosetted and distinctly upright. These combined characteristics make Tropic Breeze a unique new cultivar.
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 Dieffenbachia plant named Tropic Breeze, as illustrated and described.
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