US Plant Patent PP5336
Erica
Heather named Erica Sunset
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 25, 2003. 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
- PP5336
- Filed
- March 25, 1983
- Granted
- November 13, 1984
- Expires
- March 25, 2003
- Assignee
- BRUNO IMAZIO NURSERY
- Inventor
- IMAZIO BRUNO L
Abstract
A new variety of heather particularly distinguished by its very early blooming habit relative to that of its parent and its profuse production of red-purple or magenta flowers which open progressively beginning with buds at the base of the stem and continuing rapidly to the tip of the stem. Whereas the parent does not begin to bloom until the end of February, this new plant begins to bloom early in December and continues through January well into February, its delightful deep and glowing color being advantageous for both the Christmas season and the Valentine's 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 variety of Heather persoluta, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly characterized by its profuse production of blooms over the entire length of the stem beginning early in December.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5336 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.