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US Plant Patent PP8487

Variegated Wild Coffee

Variegated wild coffee plant "Variegated Wild Coffee"

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 16, 2011. 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
PP8487
Filed
August 16, 1991
Granted
December 7, 1993
Expires
August 16, 2011
Inventor
BURCH JAMES N

Abstract

A new variety of the wild coffee plant known as Psychotria nervosa has been asexually propagated. The new plant is characterized by having substantial variegated pigmentation. The new plant may be useful as a drought-tolerant plant for native species landscape in southern Florida.

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 variegated wild coffee (Psychotria nervosa) plant as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8487 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.