Protected plants

In order to be registrable, a plant must be ‘prescribed’, ie named in the list of ‘kinds of plant’ which is set out in Table 1 of the Regulations under the Act.  This list is amended from time to time.  Tlist below includes examples of the kinds of plants that are currently registrable:

Agricultural crops

kidney bean, castor bean, potato, groundnuts, oats, soya bean, cotton, sunflower, barley, rye grass, hops, lucerne, rice, pearl millet (babala), grain sorghum, wheat, and grain maize.

Vegetable crops

onion, garden beet, cauliflower, cabbage, turnip, sweet pepper, cucumber, pumpkin, squash, carrot, lettuce, tomato, garden bean, pea, sweet corn, popcorn, watermelon, spanspek (sweet melon), eggfruit and olive.

Fruit crops

citrus, quince, strawberry, litchi, apple, mango, banana, granadilla, avocado, apricot, sweet and sour cherry, plum, peach, nectarine, guava, pear, grape, almond, pecan nut, coffee, tea and macadamia nut.

Ornamental crops

protea, chrysanthemum, carnation, poinsettia, freesia, gladiolus, geranium, rose, african violet, lachenalia, chinkerinchees, brunia, wax flower, heath, sword fern, giant panicum, protea, agapanthus, michaelmas daisy, fuchsia, begonia, ivy, hibiscus and oleander.

The above list is not exhaustive.  Please contact us if you require a full list to be supplied to you.