US Plant Patent PP6797
Prince of Orange
Philodendron plant named Prince of Orange
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 21, 2008. 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
- PP6797
- Filed
- January 21, 1988
- Granted
- May 16, 1989
- Expires
- January 21, 2008
Abstract
There is disclosed a stocky, compact self-heading Philodendron plant of unique color, having new leaves of bright orange, which when the leaves mature change colors from orange to apricot, to yellow green to pale or medium green, pinkish red petioles adding to the overall distinctive color of the plant wherein the petioles are short and stocky averaging six to seven inches in length, whorls of twelve inch long by eight inch wide leaves that are elliptic to ovate in shape coming from the crown, a relatively high indoor light intensity and moderate temperature being needed for good color.
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 Philodendron plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized as to novelty by its stocky, compact, self-heading growth habit, its unique color of new leaves which are bright, glossy orange, and as the leaves mature changing colors from bright orange, to apricot to pale yellow-green, with pinkish-red petioles which add to the attractiveness of the plant, a whorl of twelve inch long by eight inch wide leaves that are narrowly ovate extending from the crown, relatively high light intensities and moderate temperatures making the plant a very colorful indoor specimen with low maintenance requirements in which the symmetrical growth is upright and attains an average height of eighteen inches to twenty inches and width of thirty-six inches in approximately one year from a tissue culture liner.
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