US Plant Patent PP5914
Exacum
Double Exacum white
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 12, 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
- PP5914
- Filed
- March 12, 1985
- Granted
- March 24, 1987
- Expires
- March 12, 2005
- Assignee
- NURSERYMEN S EXCHANGE
- Inventor
- ROSENDAL ERIK
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Exacum plant characterized by double flowers, floriferousness, blooming habits and the sterility of the flower. Plants can be propagated by asexual processes true to type. Rooting ability of the variety is excellent. The size of the flower surpasses that of the known single cultivar.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus disclosed my invention, I claim: 1. "White Rococo" to be a new and distinct cultivar of Exacum as shown and described, characterized by double white flowers, its floriferousness, its blooming habits, by the sterility of the flower, by its ability to be propagated by asexual processes true to type, having excellent rooting ability, and wherein the size of the flower is 18 to 25 mm in diameter, surpassing that of the known single cultivars.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5914 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.