US Plant Patent PP6098
Ruby
Philodendron plant named Ruby
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 27, 2005. 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
- PP6098
- Filed
- December 27, 1985
- Granted
- February 2, 1988
- Expires
- December 27, 2005
- Inventor
- DE COSTER PAUL
Abstract
A philodendron plant named Ruby having dark green-brown foliage at top of plant, changing to dark green as leaves mature and new growth appears at top; vertical, fast a vigorous growth habit; grey-purple petioles, stem and petiole sheath providing a striking contrast with dark foliage; relatively short internodes which produce an abundance of foliage, and by its ease of propagation by tissue culture.
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 cultivar of philodendron plant named Ruby, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by the combined features of dark green-brown foliage at top of plant, changing to dark green as leaves mature and new growth appears at top; vertical, fast and vigorous growth habit; grey-purple petioles, stem and petiole sheath provide a striking contrast with dark foliage; relatively short internodes produce an abundance of foliage, and by its ease of propagation by tissue culture.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6098 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.