US Plant Patent PP9125
Paul A. Kohl
Azalea hybrid plant `Paul A. Kohl`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 18, 2014. 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
- PP9125
- Filed
- March 18, 1994
- Granted
- May 2, 1995
- Expires
- March 18, 2014
- Inventor
- KOHL PAUL A; BUCKLEY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE BY R
Abstract
The new plant is a hybrid semi-evergreen azalea characterized by compact mounded, branching form and blooms which appear in clusters of two with an occasional cluster of three. The azalea blooms in early April to mid-May in St. Louis, Mo. Blooms measure 1 32/32 to 2 15/32 inches in diameter, usually 1 32/32 to 2 15/32 inches, and are single with five lobes fused at the base with 10 non-petaloid stamens. The blooms are uniform pink with no flecking.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new variety of hybrid semi-evergreen azalea plant as described and illustrated, characterized by a compact globular form, tolerant of rapid changes in temperature, resistant to drought and excessive moisture, hardy at -10° F. in mid-western United States' seasons, good rooting habit and blooms having a diameter of 1 32/32 to 2 15/32 inches, which appear generally in duplicate with an occasional triplicate, the plant blooms from early Apr. to mid-May in St. Louis, Mo., with single, uniform pink flowers that are of open funnel-shaped form with non-petaloid stamens.
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