US Plant Patent PP10748
S16
Spathiphyllum plant `S16`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 19, 2017. 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
- PP10748
- Filed
- May 19, 1997
- Granted
- January 5, 1999
- Expires
- May 19, 2017
- 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 virorously; branches early and freely; flowers naturally early, abundantly and year-round producing good quality inflorescences from the onset of flowering; has thick, strong peduncles and large spathes with very 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 `S16`, substantially as described and illustrated herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by its medium to large size; full and symmetrical growth habit; vigorous growth; early and abundant branching; early, abundant and year-round natural flowering; large spathes with limited green coloration, held on thick, strong peduncles relatively close to foliage.
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