US Plant Patent PP7174
Santa Cruz
Plant of the Cactaceae plant family `Santa Cruz`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 12, 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
- PP7174
- Filed
- December 12, 1988
- Granted
- February 27, 1990
- Expires
- December 12, 2008
Abstract
A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" and has a growth habit which is similar to that the "Twilight Tangerine" variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,200) but which, nevertheless, differs, among other things, by having phylloclades with longer and thicker midribs and thicker wings and teeth, a bloom with more intense salmon coloration, and flowers which are sterile and have a sepaloid series of tepals with a smaller number of tepals and shorter tepal lengths and smaller tepal widths, a tube laminating series of tepals with a larger number of tepals and greater tepal widths, a tube forming series of tepals with greater widths, and a longer perianth tube.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family as shown and described and which is mainly distinguished from its antecedents and known related varieties by a growth habit which is similar to that of the "Twilight Tangerine" variety but as modified by the combination of the characteristics which follow: (1) A more erect posture at maturity than the "Twilight Tangerine" variety. (2) Phylloclades which, in comparison to the "Twilight Tangerine" variety, have (a) longer and thicker midribs, (b) thicker wings, and (c) thicker teeth, (3) Flowers which, in comparison to the "Twilight Tangerine" variety, are sterile and have (a) a bloom with a greater dominance of a reddish orange hue in the coloration, (b) a sepaloid tepal series with a smaller number of tepals and which have a shorter length and smaller width, (c) a tube laminating tepal series with a larger number of tepals and which have a greater width, (d) a tube forming tepal series with tepals that have a greater width, (e) a longer perianth tube, (f) an androecium with a smaller number of tube attached stamens, and both the tube attached and basally united stamens having filaments that are longer and with greater diameters, and (g) a gynoecium with a style that is longer and and has a larger diameter and ovaries that are shorter in length and have a smaller number of carpules, the ovaries having longer major and minor axes at the distal ends of the concavities.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7174 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.