US Plant Patent PP8584
Teroptima
Gerbera plant "Teroptima"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 9, 2012. 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
- PP8584
- Filed
- September 9, 1992
- Granted
- February 8, 1994
- Expires
- September 9, 2012
- Assignee
- TERRA NIGRA B V
- Inventor
- STRAVERS LAMBERTUS J M
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Gerbera plant named `Teroptima`, characterized by its single type, a unique pink ray floret which fades to white toward the center, a red-purple disc floret the outer petaloids of which fade to white, pink perianth lobe color and 120 mm overall flower diameter is disclosed.
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 Gerbera plant named `Teroptima`, as illustrated and described, characterized by its single type, a unique pink ray floret which fades to white toward the center, a red-purple disc floret the outer petaloids of which fade to white, pink perianth lobe color and 120 mm overall flower diameter.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8584 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.