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US Plant Patent PP25797

AZ 35

Azalea plant named ‘AZ 35’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends March 18, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 23, 2033. This patent earned 85 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP25797, the photograph of AZ 35 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP25797, 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
PP25797
Filed
December 23, 2013
Granted
August 11, 2015
Expires
March 18, 2034
Assignee
US AGRICULTURE, CAPSTONE PLANTS INC, US OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE A GOVERNMENT AGENCY
Inventor
POUNDERS CECIL T; BERRY JAMES B

Abstract

A new cultivar of Azalea named ‘AZ 35’ that is characterized by its compact, rounded plant habit with a top to bottom leaf canopy, its two distinct blooming periods from late March to early April and from late July into September in Texas and Mississippi, its spider form petals, that are pink in color and elongated in the spring and less elongated and tinted lavender in the fall, its narrow, sandpaper-textured foliage that is light green in color and blushed purple in the winter, its high level of resistance to spider mites, aphids, lace bugs, its high tolerance to heat stress, its stem and flower buds that are resistant to cold damage down to 14° F., its ease and speed of propagation by cuttings, and its very vigorous growth rate.

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 plant named ‘AZ 35’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP25797 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.