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US Plant Patent PP11863

White Moon

Osteospermum plant named ‘White Moon’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 22, 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
PP11863
Filed
February 22, 1999
Granted
May 8, 2001
Expires
February 22, 2019
Inventor
ROTHER REINHARD W

Abstract

A distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant named ‘White Moon’, characterized by its upright, mounding and outwardly spreading growth habit; small numerous leaves and large upright inflorescences on long peduncles; vigor; freely branching habit; white-colored ray florets contrasted by dark bluish purple-tipped disc florets and bluish base of ray florets; and numerous inflorescences per plant.

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 Osteospermum plant named ‘White Moon’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11863 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.