US Plant Patent PP15532
Sun-Asaro
Asarina plant named ‘Sun-Asaro’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 9, 2023. 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
- PP15532
- Filed
- September 9, 2003
- Granted
- February 8, 2005
- Expires
- September 9, 2023
- Assignee
- SUNTORY FLOWERS LTD
- Inventor
- YOMO YASUNORI; MIYAZAKI KIYOSHI
Abstract
Disclosed herein is an Asarina plant which has a creeping growth habit having short internode stem. The stem color is moderate yellow-green. The flower is a Penstemon-type and large. Both of the petal and the outside of corolla tube colors are strong purplish-red. The plant has a high resistance to heat, pests and diseases.
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 Asarina plant named ‘Sun-Asaro’ substantially as herein illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15532 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.