US Plant Patent PP8844
Ceres
Spathiphyllum plant--Ceres cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 29, 2013. 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
- PP8844
- Filed
- March 29, 1993
- Granted
- July 19, 1994
- Expires
- March 29, 2013
- Assignee
- BRAAM GEB
- Inventor
- VAN DORDRECHT ERIK
Abstract
A new and distinct Spathiphyllum hybrid cultivar of the Mauna Loa type is provided. The new cultivar was produced during the course of a planned breeding program wherein the Pallas cultivar (non-patented in the United States) was crossed by a unnamed seedling of the Mauna Loa type (non-patented in the United States). The new cultivar when compared to its Pallas parent exhibits a smaller more compact growth habit, forms leaves that are narrower, flowers sooner, exhibits leaves that possess a silk-matte finish, forms a geniculum that commonly is more bent, and forms a very sturdy flower stem. The new cultivar serves well as an attractive ornamental pot plant and has been named the Ceres cultivar.
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 having the following combination of characteristics: (a) exhibits a smaller and more compact growth habit of lesser width than the Pallas cultivar, (b) forms leaves that are narrower than those of the Pallas cultivar, (c) flowers sooner and more frequently than the Pallas cultivar, (d) forms a mature plant that lacks a pronounced main shoot with ground shoots having approximately the same size as the central shoot when the first flower appears, (e) exhibits leaves that possess a silk-matte surface appearance that can be compared to the slightly more glossy leaves of the Pallas cultivar, (f) commonly forms a geniculum that is more curved than that of the Pallas cultivar, and (g) forms a very sturdy erect flower stem; substantially as illustrated and described.
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