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US Plant Patent PP7481

Red Pacifica

Heather plant named "Red Pacifica"

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 11, 2009. 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
PP7481
Filed
October 11, 1989
Granted
March 26, 1991
Expires
October 11, 2009

Abstract

The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Heather plant named `Red Pacifica`, believed to be a seedling of Erica regerminans `Pacifica` (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,430) and of unknown pollen parent, discovered growing in a field of Erica regerminans `Pacifica`, where it was selected because of its distinctive Magenta-Pink color, larger growth habit and slightly earlier blooming time.

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 Heather plant named `Red Pacifica`, substantially as herein shown and described characterized particularly as to novelty by its distinctive Magenta-Pink color, taller growth habit and slightly earlier blooming habit than its seed parent Erica regerminans `Pacifica`.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7481 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.