US Plant Patent PP4276
Piperaceae plant family
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 27, 1997. 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
- PP4276
- Filed
- June 27, 1977
- Granted
- July 11, 1978
- Expires
- June 27, 1997
- Assignee
- B L COBIA INC
- Inventor
- COBIA BARNELL L; GRIFFITH STEPHEN H
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct plant variety of the Piperaceae Family is related to the Peperomia rufescens variety known commercially as `Red Ripple` and is principally distinguished from this variety and other known related varieties by a growth habit which provides leaf blades that at the upper epidermal side have a basic field which in color is dominated by yellow green and/or greenish yellow hues, which is discontinuous and interrupted along the veins by color that varies in lateral penetration from the vein and is dominated by reddish orange, reddish brown, brown, brownish orange, yellowish brown and/or orange yellow hues, and which is commonly endowed between the primary veins with elongated streaks of color weaknesses that appear as overtones of light greenish gray, grayish white and/or yellowish gray colors; the leaf blades at the lower epidermal side having a basic field which in color is dominated by a yellow green hue, and which is discontinuous and interrupted along the veins by color that varies in lateral penetration from the vein and is dominated by pink and/or red hues.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. The new and distinct plant variety of the Piperaceae Family as is described and illustrated and which is primarily distinguished by a growth habit providing specimens with leaf blades that (1) at the upper epidermal side have a basic field which in color is dominated by yellow green and/or greenish yellow hues, the basic field being discontinuous and interrupted along the veins by color that varies in lateral penetration from the vein and is dominated by reddish orange, reddish brown, brown, brownish orange, yellowish brown and/or orange yellow hues, and the basic field being commonly endowed with elongated streaks of color weaknesses that appear between the primary veins as overtones of light greenish gray, greenish white and/or yellowish grey colors and (2) at the lower epidermal side have a basic field which in color is dominated by a yellow green hue and which is discontinuous and interrupted along the veins by color that varies in lateral penetration from the vein and is dominated by pink and/or red hues.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4276 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.