US Plant Patent PP11806
Underhill
Leatherleaf fern plant named ‘Underhill’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 15, 2019. 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
- PP11806
- Filed
- June 15, 1999
- Granted
- March 13, 2001
- Expires
- June 15, 2019
- Assignee
- UNDERHILL FERNERIES
- Inventor
- UNDERHILL JR FRANK ELMORE
Abstract
A distinct cultivar of Leatherleaf Fern plant named ‘Underhill’, characterized by its upright and outwardly arching plant habit; moderate vigor and rapid growth rate; dark burgundy-colored rachis that are durable and strong; numerous pinnules per frond that are medium green, glossy, with finely and deeply serrate margins and acute apices which give a fringed lacy appearance to the frond; overlapping pinnules which give a full and dense appearance to the frond; and no spores.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Leatherleaf Fern plant named ‘Underhill’, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11806 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.