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US Plant Patent PP21444

Gorgon's Grotto

Echeveria plant named ‘Gorgon's Grotto’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends June 6, 2029.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP21444, the photograph of Gorgon's Grotto printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP21444, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP21444
Filed
June 6, 2009
Granted
November 2, 2010
Expires
June 6, 2029
Inventor
O'CONNELL RENEE

Abstract

A new and distinct Echeveria cultivar named ‘Gorgon's Grotto’ is disclosed, characterized strongly developed carunculations with carunculated anfractuous leaf apices and highly anfracutuous leaf margins. Foliage is distinctively greyed-purple with large pink caruncles. Plant diameter is unusually large for an Echeveria . The new variety is an Echeveria , typically produced as a garden or container plant.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Echeveria plant named ‘Gorgon's Grotto’ as herein illustrated and described.

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