US Plant Patent PP5389
Nancy Marie
Azalea named Nancy Marie
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 16, 2003. 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
- PP5389
- Filed
- June 16, 1983
- Granted
- January 15, 1985
- Expires
- June 16, 2003
- Assignee
- GEO J BALL INC
- Inventor
- ARNESEN RICHARD A
Abstract
A new and distinctive variety of azalea plant particularly adapted for greenhouse forcing and distinguished by its basically white flowers variegated by a middle stripe of a coral color about one-third the petal width and extending the length of the petal, the petal colors being very definitely segregated and producing a star-shaped display of color against an all white background. This plant has a vigorous, sturdy and well branched growth habit, with abundant foliage, a profuse production of blooms and capability of being bloomed at any time of the spring season.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of azalea plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its basically white flower petals each having a longitudinal midsection of pink coloration which presents a star-like appearance for the fully opened flower.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5389 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.