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US Plant Patent PP6874

-- Phoenix

Spathiphyllum named -- Phoenix

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 28, 2007. 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
PP6874
Filed
August 28, 1987
Granted
June 20, 1989
Expires
August 28, 2007

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Spathiphyllum named Phoenix which is particularly distinguished by having a darker, glossier leaf, a rounder, shorter, thicker and stiffer leaf blade and a larger, earlier-flowering bloom than Spathiphyllum Supreme. The cultivar was discovered in the progeny of self-pollinated Spathiphyllum St. Mary. The cultivar is shorter than the parent Spathiphyllum St. Mary, has smaller, rounder and thicker leaves than St. Mary, and is darker green than St. Mary.

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 Spathiphyllum as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6874 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.