US Plant Patent PP11187
Irish Lace
Azalea plant named `Irish Lace`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 20, 2018. 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
- PP11187
- Filed
- May 20, 1998
- Granted
- January 25, 2000
- Expires
- May 20, 2018
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- GLICENSTEIN LEON
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Azalea plant named `Irish Lace`, characterized by its very dark green leaves that do not abscise during the cooling and forcing periods; dense, uniform and symmetrical plant habit; rapid flowering after forcing; numerous greenish-white-colored flowers with undulating petal margins which give the flowers a ruffled appearance; single to semi-double hose-in-hose flower form; and excellent postproduction longevity with plants maintaining good flower substance for up to four weeks in an interior environment.
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 `Irish Lace`, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11187 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.