US Plant Patent PP9814
Diora
Ixora plant--`Diora`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 1, 2015. 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
- PP9814
- Filed
- November 1, 1995
- Granted
- March 4, 1997
- Expires
- November 1, 2015
- Inventor
- ZAANDAM DIANA
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Ixora chinensis plant denominated `Diora`, which is of the Dwarf Hybrida Ixora class, and which is characterized particularly by its milk white flowers, its large inflorescence and copious number of flowers and buds per large corymb. This plant has an especially dwarf habit, heavy branching and forms a short and uncommonly compact shrub with a very dense canopy of uniform, dark green leaves.
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 variety of Ixora plant, as illustrated and described, particularly distinguished by its precocity, large, crowded corymbs of large diameter and high flower count, which contrast with its dark green, uniform leaves.
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