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US Plant Patent PP16609

Pink Angora

Azalea plant name ‘Pink Angora’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 10, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 1, 2025. This patent earned 98 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16609, the photograph of Pink Angora printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16609, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP16609
Filed
February 1, 2005
Granted
June 6, 2006
Expires
May 10, 2025
Assignee
YODER BROTHERS INC
Inventor
BERGMAN WENDY R

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Azalea plant named ‘Pink Angora’, characterized by its dark green-colored leaves that do not abscise during the cooling and forcing periods; uniform and outwardly spreading plant habit; freely branching habit; uniform and freely flowering habit; rapid flowering response; plants begin flowering about three weeks after cooling treatment; large and showy bright pink-colored flowers; double hose-in-hose flower form; flowers star-shaped; good postproduction longevity with plants maintaining good flower substance for about three to four weeks in an interior environment; and very good resistance to Cylindrocladium in inoculated trials.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct Azalea plant named ‘Pink Angora’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16609 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.