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US Plant Patent PP8822

Oriental

Guzmania plant named Oriental

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 9, 2013. 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
PP8822
Filed
August 9, 1993
Granted
July 5, 1994
Expires
August 9, 2013
Inventor
DE MEYER HENRI

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Guzmania plant named Oriental, characterized particularly by the coloration of its bracts. The bracts at the bottom of the flower shaft are mainly green with a red merge zone and a green tip. The intermediate bracts are mainly orange with an outer red merge zone and tip. The uppermost bracts surrounding the flowers, which are yellow-orange with a very bright yellow tip, are orange with red at the very tip.

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 Guzmania plant named Oriental, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8822 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.