US Plant Patent PP7893
Christine
Ficus benjamina L. named `Christine`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 26, 2010. 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
- PP7893
- Filed
- April 26, 1990
- Granted
- June 23, 1992
- Expires
- April 26, 2010
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a sport of Ficus benjamina L., `Exotica` and is characterized by an exceptionally compact habit, with small leaves, and short internodes. The new cultivar is known as Ficus benjamina L. `Christine` and is especially suited for pot-plant production.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus disclosed my presentation, I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Ficus benjamina L. plant named `Christine`, substantially as shown and described, characterized as a very compact, small leaved Ficus especially suited for pot-plant culture, the cultivar having proved to be constant through several generations of asexually propagated material, wherein the compactness, number of small leaves and short internodes distinguish `Christine` clearly from the parent plant, Ficus benjamina L. `Exotica`.
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