US Plant Patent PP9910
Cherish
Azalea plant `Cherish`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 5, 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
- PP9910
- Filed
- January 5, 1996
- Granted
- June 3, 1997
- Expires
- January 5, 2016
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- BERGMAN WENDY R
Abstract
An azalea plant named Cherish, particularly characterized by its evergreen foliage, semi-double hose-in-hose flower form with slightly frilled margins, coral-pink flower color with a dark coral-pink blotch, ease of budding, uniform and dense plant habit, free branching, rapid and uniform flower response in a year round controlled program, excellent cooler tolerance and very good keeping quality.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of azalea named Cherish, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9910 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.