US Plant Patent PP9901
S9
Spathiphyllum plant `S9`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 31, 2016. 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
- PP9901
- Filed
- January 31, 1996
- Granted
- May 20, 1997
- Expires
- January 31, 2016
- Assignee
- OGLESBY PLANT LAB INC
- Inventor
- OSIECKI MARIAN W
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Spathiphyllum is provided. The plant is small, compact, suitable for production in 10-15 cm pots from a single tissue cultured microcutting; displays good proportion between inflorescence and foliage; maintains symmetrical growth habit at close pot spacing; has vigorous growth; early and abundant branching; exceptionally early, abundant and year-round naural flowering and inflorescences of good quality, with very little green coloration of spathes, from the onset of flowering.
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 `S9`, substantially as described and illustrated herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by its small size, compact growth habit, vigorous growth, early and abundant branching, exceptionally early, abundant and year-round natural flowering, good quality inflorescence from the onset of flowering, very little green coloration on spathes, good proportion between inflorescence and foliage in 10-15 cm pots, symmetrical growth habit at close pot spacing and having no unusual susceptibility to the traditional Spathiphyllum diseases and insects.
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