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US Plant Patent PP27357

WP001

Agapanthus plant named ‘WP001’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends June 3, 2035.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 16, 2035. This patent earned 79 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP27357, the photograph of WP001 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP27357, 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
PP27357
Filed
March 16, 2015
Granted
November 8, 2016
Expires
June 3, 2035
Assignee
DE WET CHARLES ANDREW
Inventor
BEAN QUINTON

Abstract

A new cultivar of Agapanthus , ‘WP001’, that is characterized by its fast growing and fast multiplying growth habit, its inflorescences that form dense umbels of flowers that are white in color, its extended flowering season blooming; re-blooming from July to December in South Africa, its very floriferous blooming period producing an unusually high number of inflorescences, its partial resistance to fungal infection from Macrophoma agapanthii and its small to medium plant size.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Agapanthus plant named ‘WP001’ as herein illustrated and described.

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