US Plant Patent PP6133
Newport
Raphiolepis indica CV Newport
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 3, 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
- PP6133
- Filed
- September 3, 1985
- Granted
- March 22, 1988
- Expires
- September 3, 2005
- Assignee
- WEYERHAEUSER CO
- Inventor
- DI FLORIO ALBERT R
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Raphiolepis indica which originated as a mutation in a group of cuttings taken from a parent "Jack Evans" variety. The new cultivar is particularly notable for flowers having a rich, vivid red-purple color, darker than any other known variety of Raphiolepis indica. The plant is of slow growing nature and tight, compact habit. Overall height of a fully mature plant is expected to fall in the range of 60 to 90 cm.
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 Raphiolepis indica, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized as to novelty by: flower petals having a unique, dark, rich vivid red-purple color; flowers that remain somewhat cupped, never fully expanding; and a slow growing nature and tight, compact habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6133 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.