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US Plant Patent PP18389

Sunny Victoria

Osteospermum plant named ‘Sunny Victoria’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 27, 2026. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP18389, the photograph of Sunny Victoria printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP18389, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP18389
Filed
April 27, 2006
Granted
January 1, 2008
Expires
April 27, 2026
Inventor
LARSEN BJARNE N

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of osteospermum plant named Sunny Victoria, particularly characterized by spoon-shaped ray florets which generally form an hourglass shape and which when mature are a medium lavender in color at the tips and transition to a very pale lavender to nearly white at the base, upright growth habit, and its nonvariegated leaves.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of osteospermum plant named Sunny Victoria, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP18389 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.