US Plant Patent PP6927
Best Rose
Exacum plant `Best Rose`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 11, 2008. 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
- PP6927
- Filed
- January 11, 1988
- Granted
- July 18, 1989
- Expires
- January 11, 2008
Abstract
A new and distinctive cultivar of exacum plant particularly characterized by its uniquely colored rose-purple petals not seen in exacum before, the petals surrounding bright yellow-gold stamen, the flower set against a dense, moderately dark green foliage, the plant having a rapid, full and compact growth, a floriferous display of rose-purple flowers that have stamens and style and produce seed, and reproduces easily and consistently by cuttings or by seed.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of exacum affine plant named Best Rose, as shown and described, and particularly characterized by its uniquely colored rose-purple petals never seen in exacum before, the petals surrounding bright yellow-gold stamen to produce a unique flower set against a dense, moderately dark green foliage, the cultivar having a rapid, full and compact growth, a floriferous display of rose-purple flowers that produce seed, and reproduces easily and consistently by cuttings or seed.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6927 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.