US Plant Patent PP4750
Gazania plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 16, 2000. 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
- PP4750
- Filed
- May 16, 1980
- Granted
- June 30, 1981
- Expires
- May 16, 2000
- Inventor
- ENRIGHT PAUL C
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A novel Gazania seedling distinguished by its two distinctly different leaf patterns and distinctively rayed flowers. Petals are patterned with basal rings of, first, Gargoyle, followed by a second ring of Ivy Green. On elongated central stripe of Zanzibar extends from the second ring and fades progressively toward the tip into Cadnium Yellow which defines substantially the entire petal margin.
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 variety of Gazania plant substantially as herein described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its unique flower and varying leaf form.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4750 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.