US Plant Patent PP7457
Jessica Dawn
Azalea hybrid `Jessica Dawn`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 12, 2009. 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
- PP7457
- Filed
- May 12, 1989
- Granted
- February 26, 1991
- Expires
- May 12, 2009
Abstract
The new plant is a hybrid evergreen azalea characterized by a compact horizontally spreading form with ascending branches, a uniform, strong and vigorous rooting habit, and blooms which appear in clusters of two to four. The azalea blooms mid-season (early March-April) in Irvine, Calif. Blooms have a diameter of about 7.6 to 8.9 cm, a double hose-in-hose open funnel shaped form with petaloid stamens, and petals with an upper surface marbled in four shades of pink.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new variety of hybrid evergreen azalea plant as described and illustrated, characterized by a compact horizontally spreading form with ascending branches, a uniform, strong and vigorous rooting habit, and blooms which appear in clusters of two to four, is a mid-season bloomer (early March-April) in Irvine, Calif., the blooms having a diameter of about 7.6 to 8.9 cm, a double hose-in-hose open funnel shaped form with petaloid stamens, and petals having an upper surface marbled in four shades of pink.
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