US Plant Patent PP6102
White Rosette
Exacum named White Rosette
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 24, 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
- PP6102
- Filed
- February 24, 1986
- Granted
- February 9, 1988
- Expires
- February 24, 2006
- Assignee
- NURSERYMEN S EXCHANGE
- Inventor
- ROSENDAL ERIK
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Exacum plant characterized by double flowers, with the normal 5 anthers transformed into a rosette of petals in the center of the flower, 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 semidouble flower differs from that of the other known 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. "White Rosette" to be a new and distinct cultivar of Exacum as shown and described, characterized by its semidouble white flowers, with the normal five anthers transformed into a rosette of petals in the center of the flower, its floriferousness, its blooming habits, by the sterility of the flower with the plants being propagated by asexual processes true to type, excellent rooting ability and the semidouble flower differing from that of the other known cultivars.
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