US Plant Patent PP6346
Dracaena magenta
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 5, 2006. 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
- PP6346
- Filed
- November 5, 1986
- Granted
- October 18, 1988
- Expires
- November 5, 2006
- Assignee
- TROPICAL BOTAN CORP
- Inventor
- SANDI-MATAMOROS MISAEL
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
A new and distinct variety of Dracaena plant characterized by medium long, narrow, sword shaped dense spreading leaves, the leaves being compactly grouped and nearly erect, the texture thereof being shiny and smooth and the distinctive color of the leaves being on the undersides, a green mid-vein stripe narrowing from base toward apex, surrounded by maroon and the uppersides having a wider green mid-band stripe narrowing from base to apex and blending into maroon.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus disclosed my discovery, I claim: 1. The new distinct variety of Dracaena plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by medium long, narrow, sword shaped, dense spreading leaves, the leaves being shiny and smooth and the distinctive color pattern of its leaves being, on the underside, a green mid-vein, striped narrowing from base toward apex, surrounded by maroon and the upper leaf side having a wider green mid-band narrowing from base toward apex and blending into maroon.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6346 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.