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US Plant Patent PP6396

Ariadne

Streptocarpus plant named Ariadne

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 30, 2007. 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
PP6396
Filed
January 30, 1987
Granted
November 15, 1988
Expires
January 30, 2007
Inventor
DREWLOW LYNDON W

Abstract

A Streptocarpus plant named Ariadne characterized by its compact growth habit, white flowers with magenta streaking on lower petals; floriferous habit, early flowering, tolerance to low light and high temperature, relatively small leaves, and by its long lasting and non-shattering flowers.

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 Streptocarpus plant named Ariadne, as identified and described, and particularly characterized by its compact growth habit, white flowers with magenta streaking on lower petals; floriferous habit, early flowering, tolerance to low light and high temperature, relatively small leaves, and by its long lasting and non-shattering flowers.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6396 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.