US Plant Patent PP8014
Heath plant named Heidi
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 9, 2011. 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
- PP8014
- Filed
- May 9, 1991
- Granted
- October 27, 1992
- Expires
- May 9, 2011
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 new and distinct variety of heath named `Heidi`, a seedling of unknown pollen parent discovered growing in a field of Erica persoluta `Sunset`, the variety believed to be the seed parent, which is principally distinguished by its dwarfish growth habit which makes it suitable for pot plant culture relative to that of its parent, which is of the cut flower variety. The new variety is also distinguished by its red-purple magenta colored blooms, its natural abundant branching, its stiff erect stems, its compact, dense appearance, and its early blooming time of mid January through mid February which makes it available for the Valentine Day market.
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 hybrid plant variety of the Heath family substantially as herein shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8014 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.