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US Plant Patent PP12772

Pa'akala

Taro plant named ‘Pa'akala’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 22, 2019. 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.

Figure 4 of US plant patent PP12772, the photograph of Pa'akala printed in the patent.
Figure 4 from US Plant Patent PP12772, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP12772
Filed
October 22, 1999
Granted
July 16, 2002
Expires
October 22, 2019
Assignee
UNIV HAWAII
Inventor
TRUJILLO EDUARDO E

Abstract

The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of Colocasia esculenta (popularly known as taro) named "Pa'kala'. "Pa'akala' differs distinctively from other plants by its unique combination of resistance to taro leaf blight caused by Phytophthora colocasiae, high tolerance to root rot caused by Pythium ssp., vigorous growth, extra-large mother corm size, and pinkish corm of very good flour quality and good poi and eating qualities.

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 taro plant, substantially as illustrated and described herein, that is characterized by resistance to taro leaf blight caused by Pytophthora colocasiae , high tolerance to root rot caused by Pythium spp., vigorous growth, extra-large mother corm size, and pinkish corm of very good flour quality and good poi and eating qualities.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12772 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.