US Plant Patent PP5188
Plant of the Araceae family
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 20, 2002. 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
- PP5188
- Filed
- May 20, 1982
- Granted
- February 7, 1984
- Expires
- May 20, 2002
- Inventor
- COODY ROBERT J
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
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 plant of the Spathiphyllum species is somewhat smaller in size than that of the `Mauna Loa` variety and has foliage with variegated leaf blades that have a basic chlorophyllous field containing streaks and blotches which in colors are lighter than those of the basic chlorophyllous field, and an inflorescence with a spathe that shortly after initial expansion is provided with variegated blades which have a basic achlorophyllous field that contains chlorophyllous streaks and blotches and merges distally in the spathe with a chlorophyllous tip area, spathe coloration changing as the spathe matures to provide variegated blades that have a basic chlorophyllous field which contains chlorophlyllous and nearly achlorophyllous streaks and blotches that are generally lighter in colors than those found in the basic chlorophyllous field of a mature spathe.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of the Araceae family as described and illustrated and which combines the following principal distinguishing characteristics: (1) a plant specimen which in size is generally smaller than those of the `Mauna Loa` variety of the Spathiphyllum species, (2) foliage that includes leaf blades which are variegated and provided with a basic chlorophyllous field that contains streaks and blotches which in colors are generally lighter than those of the basic chlorophyllous field and which also vary in color, pattern and size within the leaf blades and from one leaf blade to the next, and (3) an inflorescence with a spathe that shortly after initial expansion is provided with variegated blades which have a basic achlorophyllous field that contains chlorophyllous streaks and blotches and merges distally in the spathe with a chlorophyllous tip area which extends proximally in the leaf blade further than that of the `Mauna Loa` variety of the Spathiphyllum species, the spathe coloration changing as the spathe matures to provide variegated blades that have a basic chlorophyllous field which contains chlorophyllous and nearly achlorophyllous streaks and blotches that are generally lighter in color than those found in the basic chlorphyllous field.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5188 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.