US Plant Patent PP17192

MNIESM

Azalea plant named ‘MNIESM’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 13, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 13, 2025. This patent earned 31 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17192
Filed: July 13, 2005
Granted: November 7, 2006
Expires: August 13, 2025
Assignee: HARRIS JAMES O
Inventor: HARRIS JAMES O

Abstract

A new variety of Azalea plant found as a seedling in a planned cross between the female hybrid Azalea ‘EMBERS’ and the male hybrid Azalea ‘September Morn’ is disclosed. The new variety possesses a unique blooming time and is very cold hardy. It is an upright and slightly open growing Azalea with large and attractive, single to semi-double orange-red flowers.

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

1. A new variety of Azalea plant named ‘MNIESM’ as herein shown and described.

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