US Plant Patent PP5879
Dieffenbachia plant (Tropic Sun)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 2, 2005. 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
- PP5879
- Filed
- April 2, 1985
- Granted
- February 10, 1987
- Expires
- April 2, 2005
- Assignee
- LEBOSS L GARY
- Inventor
- HOLLEVOET EDMOND J A
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
The plant disclosed, named `Tropic Sun` is a basal suckering sport of `Tropic Snow`, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,869, and is distinguished from `Tropic Snow` and other known Dieffenbachia amoena cultivars by this habit and other characteristics.
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 herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of a general similarity to the parent variety, Dieffenbachia amoena cv. Tropic Snow, but having the characteristic of producing multiple basal stems which form a clump of canes, while maintaining the upright form and height of the parent, and having a greater degree of variegated foliage coloration and slightly shorter petioles and leaves.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5879 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.