US Plant Patent PP4308
Vera
Violet plant named Vera
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 30, 1997. 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
- PP4308
- Filed
- September 30, 1977
- Granted
- September 26, 1978
- Expires
- September 30, 1997
- Assignee
- GEO J BALL INC
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD W
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of African violet plant for greenhouse culture and potted plant production distinguished by the purple violet coloration of its abundant flowers which are borne on strong upright peduncles and held well above a horizontally spreading abundance of variegated dark green leaves of a generally orbicular shape, the flower petals being of both light and dark coloring in each blossom and most having a fine white marginal edging, and the foliage having an attractive quilted velutinous texture which enhances the appearance of the flower mass.
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 African violet plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its purple-violet flowers, most petals of which are delicately edged with white.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4308 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.