US Plant Patent PP4565
Variety of tropical apricot shrub
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 21, 1998. 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
- PP4565
- Filed
- August 21, 1978
- Granted
- July 8, 1980
- Expires
- August 21, 1998
- Inventor
- FARRELL WILLIAM R
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new variety of a tropical apricot shrub, originating as a sport bud variation from Dovyalis abyssinica X hebecarpa, or D. hybrida is known under the common name of tropical apricot. This new variety is characterized by variegated, color leaves having three distinct colorations of dark green, pale green disposed substantially centrally, and yellow disposed marginally about the leaves in a random variegated pattern.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What I claim is: 1. A new and distinct variety of tropical apricot shrub substantially as described and illustrated having a leaf that is characterized by a central portion of dark and light green areas and a yellow perimeter surrounding the central portion.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4565 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.