US Plant Patent PP10488
Cathy
Vriesea cultivar `Cathy`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 20, 2017. 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
- PP10488
- Filed
- February 20, 1997
- Granted
- July 7, 1998
- Expires
- February 20, 2017
- Inventor
- PIETERS LUC; DEMEYER CAROLINE; STOFBERGEN ARIE; STOFBERGEN LEENDERT
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Vriesea plant resulting as a spontaneous somoclonal variation among propagules of `Christiane` from tissue culture. This new plant, named `Cathy`, is characterized by having good vigor and an inflorescence of a dark reddish purple, deepening to near black as the blooming plant ages, rather than the usual brilliant red of the parent Vriesea `Christinae`. With the exception of the coloration of the inflorescence, the newly discovered sport `Cathy`, is phenotypically similar to the parent variety `Christiane`.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Vriesea plant, named `Cathy`, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized as to novelty by the unique combination of an erect multi-branched inflorescence reddish purple in color and also being dependably vigorous in growth.
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