US Plant Patent PP5863
Jeanene
Spathyphyllum plant "Jeanene"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 20, 2005. 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
- PP5863
- Filed
- June 20, 1985
- Granted
- January 20, 1987
- Expires
- June 20, 2005
- Inventor
- CALDWELL EDWARD B
Abstract
A variety of spathyphyllum plant having good wintertime greenish yellow overall appearance somewhat darker than prior spathyphyllum plants, the leaves being of thick elliptical shape with width about half that of the length, the plant having very good keeping qualities with resistance to cold weather, bruising and low nutrient levels without tip burn, attractive ovate blooms, and erect habit with stiff petioles.
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 variety of spathyphyllum plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of overall good winter color with greenish yellow upper surface of new leaves to greenish yellow surface of more mature leaves, good keeping qualities, the thick elliptic leaves being resistant to bruising with deep undulations as well as to cool weather chloroplast degradation, the plant as a whole being erect, with stiff petioles.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5863 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.