US Plant Patent PP10438
Conlea
Azalea hybrid variety named `Conlea`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 8, 2016. 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
- PP10438
- Filed
- August 8, 1996
- Granted
- June 9, 1998
- Expires
- August 8, 2016
- Assignee
- FLOWERWOOD NURSERY INC, LEE ROBERT E
- Inventor
- LEE ROBERT EDWARD
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Azalea found as a seeding in a planned cross between the female Azalea `Double Beauty` and the male Rhododendron oldhamii `Fourth of July`. The new variety possesses a unique blooming time and is superior in development of an upright, dense, globose shaped plant with attractive semi-double strong pink flowers.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and unique variety of Azalea Hybrid plant named `Conlea` as herein shown and described, is characterized by its spring, summer, and fall blooming, semi-double strong pink flowers, rapid growth rate, and ease of propagation; the upright, dense, and globose habit will fill numerous landscape needs for large building foundation plantings, large screens, hedges, and specimen plants.
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