US Plant Patent PP11121
S18
Spathiphyllum plant named `S18`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 30, 2018. 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
- PP11121
- Filed
- April 30, 1998
- Granted
- November 9, 1999
- Expires
- April 30, 2018
- Assignee
- OGLESBY PLANTS INTERNATIONAL I
- Inventor
- OSIECKI MARIAN W
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Spathiphyllum is provided. The plant is medium to large size, full, symmetrical; suitable for production in a 15-25 cm pot from a single tissue culture produced microcutting; maintains proper growth habit and leaf shape at close pot spacing; grows very vigorously; branches early and freely; flowers naturally early and abundantly producing good quality inflorescences from the onset of flowering; has thick, strong peduncles and medium to large spathes with little green coloration, held relatively close to foliage.
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 plant named `S18`, substantially as described and illustrated herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by its medium to large size; full and symmetrical growth habit; exceptionally vigorous growth; early and abundant branching; early and abundant natural flowering; medium to large spathes with limited green coloration, held on thick strong peduncles relatively close to foliage.
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