US Plant Patent PP8479
White Delite
Mandevilla "White Delite"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 26, 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
- PP8479
- Filed
- September 26, 1991
- Granted
- November 30, 1993
- Expires
- September 26, 2011
- Assignee
- GEM ORNAMENTALS INC
- Inventor
- HENNY RICHARD J
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Mandevilla characterized by medium-sized white flowers, shiny, dark evergreen leaves and branching growth habit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described my invention, I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Mandevilla plant substantially as shown and described, characterized by: flowers that open pale pink and become white within two days and last an additional 3-4 days on the plant; moderate axillary branching once the plant reaches flowering size; and shiny, dark green linear to elliptically-shaped leaves on the plant.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8479 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.