US Plant Patent PP5203
Exacum affine
Exacum affine pot plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 16, 2003. 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
- PP5203
- Filed
- February 16, 1983
- Granted
- March 13, 1984
- Expires
- February 16, 2003
- 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 and the rooting ability is excellent. The size of the single flower surpasses the known single cultivars.
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. A new and distinct variety of Exacum plant as shown and described, characterized by its double flowers, its floriferousness, its blooming habits and the sterility of the flower. Plants can be propagated by asexual processes true to type and the rooting ability is excellent. The size of the single flower surpasses the known single cultivars.
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