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US Plant Patent PP16745

Sunviolalemo

Viola plant named ‘Sunviolalemo’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 23, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 27, 2024. This patent earned 118 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16745, the photograph of Sunviolalemo printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16745, 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
PP16745
Filed
September 27, 2004
Granted
July 4, 2006
Expires
January 23, 2025
Assignee
SUNTORY FLOWERS LTD
Inventor
MIYAZAKI KIYOSHI; TAKAMURA NAOTO; IKEDA YUKIHIRO

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a new and distinct variety of Viola cornuta , named ‘Sunviolalemo’. This new variety has a spreading growth habit with long prostrate stems. This Viola plant has many branches, and a great profusion of blooms with the entire plant remaining in bloom for a considerable period of time. The plant displays dense green foliage, forms single medium-sized yellow flowers with some gradation of color intensity and some purple striping that are borne on the long peduncles. The flower has faint and sweet scent. The plant exhibits good resistance to rain, cold, disease and pests.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of Viola cornuta plant named ‘Sunviolalema’, substantially as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16745 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.