US Plant Patent PP4836
Little Red
Nerium indicum--Little Red variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 29, 2000. 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
- PP4836
- Filed
- September 29, 1980
- Granted
- April 6, 1982
- Expires
- September 29, 2000
- Assignee
- ALDRIDGE NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- ALDRIDGE JR RICHARD C
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Nerium indicum is provided which has a dwarf growth habit, small leaves, highly attractive deep scarlet red flowers, and superior hardiness. The seed parent of the new variety was of the Single Hardy Red variety and the pollen parent was of the Scarlet Beauty variety.
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 Nerium indicum resulting from a cross of the Single Hardy Red variety and the Scarlet Beauty variety, substantially as shown and described, characterized by: (a) a dwarf growth habit which produces an overall plant one-half or less the size of the Single Hardy Red variety in any given period and which after several years is approximately as broad as it is tall, (b) the formation of deep scarlet red flowers which are smaller than those of the Single Hardy Red and Scarlet Beauty varieties and substantially identical in color to those of the Scarlet Beauty variety, (c) the formation of leaves approximately one-half the size of the leaves of the Single Hardy Red variety, and (d) superior hardiness when compared to the Scarlet Beauty variety.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4836 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.