US Plant Patent PP17229

MNIKRI

Azalea plant named ‘MNIKRI’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 27, 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 45 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17229
Filed: July 13, 2005
Granted: November 21, 2006
Expires: August 27, 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 Azalea ‘Cherie’ (syn. V12-4) and the male Azalea ‘Indian Summer’ is disclosed. The new variety has a unique blooming period and is extremely cold hardy. It is a compact, dense, and upright growing plant with attractive, light pink, semi-double, hose-in-hose 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 ‘MNIKRI’ as herein shown and described.

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