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US Plant Patent PP6495

Electra

Streptocarpus plant named Electra

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 22, 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
PP6495
Filed
April 22, 1987
Granted
December 27, 1988
Expires
April 22, 2007
Inventor
DREWLOW LYNDON W

Abstract

A Streptocarpus plant named Electra, characterized by its bright red-purple flower color, rosette form with short pliable leaves, compact growth habit, ease of propagation and early flowering, highly floriferous and continuous flowering habits, and by its ability to flower both under low light and high temperature conditions.

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 Electra, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its bright red-purple flower color, rosette form with short pliable leaves, compact growth habit, ease of propagation and early flowering, highly floriferous and continuous flowering habits, and its ability to flower both under low light and high temperature conditions.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6495 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.