US Plant Patent PP12305
Gerda
Sambucus plant named ‘Gerda’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 21, 2019. 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
- PP12305
- Filed
- October 21, 1999
- Granted
- December 25, 2001
- Expires
- October 21, 2019
- Assignee
- HORTICULTURE RES INTERNAT
- Inventor
- TOBUTT KENNETH RICHARD
Abstract
A new cultivar of Sambucus nigra named ‘Gerda’ that is particularly distinguished in having dark purple foliage and flowers that have deep purple-pink petal markings and deep purple-pink anthers, styles and pedicels.
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 cultivar of Sambucus nigra named ‘Gerda’ as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12305 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.