US Plant Patent PP11913
First Place
Azalea plant named ‘First Place’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 7, 2020. 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
- PP11913
- Filed
- February 7, 2000
- Granted
- June 5, 2001
- Expires
- February 7, 2020
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- GLICENSTEIN LEON
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Azalea plant named ‘First Place’, characterized by its very glossy dark green leaves that do not abscise during the cooling and forcing periods; dense and outwardly spreading plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; rapid flowering after forcing; numerous large and showy reddish purple-colored flowers; hose-in-hose to semi-double hose-in-hose flower form; excellent postproduction longevity with plants maintaining good flower substance for more than four weeks in an interior environment; and very low incidence of infection with Cylindrocladium in inoculated trials.
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 ‘First Place’, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11913 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.