US Plant Patent PP11693
Christine Matton
Azalea plant named `Christine Matton`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 1, 2019. 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
- PP11693
- Filed
- March 1, 1999
- Granted
- December 12, 2000
- Expires
- March 1, 2019
- Assignee
- HORTIBREED N V
- Inventor
- VANDERHAEGEN JOHAN
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Azalea plant named `Christine Matton`, characterized by its vigorous and dense plants that are very freely branching; uniform, upright and outwardly spreading plant habit; very dark green shiny foliage; freely flowering, showy double salmon-pink flowers; and long flowering period.
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 Azalea plant named `Christine Matton`, as illustrated and described.
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