US Plant Patent PP8560
Variegata
Salvia plant named `Variegata`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 8, 2012. 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
- PP8560
- Filed
- June 8, 1992
- Granted
- January 25, 1994
- Expires
- June 8, 2012
- Assignee
- CANTERBURY ENTERPRISES INC
- Inventor
- HIGGINS RICHARD
Abstract
This disclosure relates to a new and unique member of Salvia greggii which occured as a spontaneous mutant on a specimen plant which was being used for asexual propagation of nursery stock in Phoenix, Ariz. This plant, while generally similar to the phenotype of the unnamed parent plant, differs from the parent plant and other plants of the species by having a distinctive marginal variegation which is confined to the foliage of the disclosed plant.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. The new distinct variety of Salvia greggii herein described and illustrated and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8560 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.