Azalea plant named MNISIR

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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17193, the photograph of Azalea plant named MNISIR printed in the patent.

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The record

Patent number

PP17193

Filed

July 13, 2005

Granted

November 7, 2006

Expires

August 13, 2025

Assignee

HARRIS JAMES O

Inventor

HARRIS JAMES O

No cultivar name of record

This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.

Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.

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, semi-double, hose-in-hose, coral pink 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 ‘MNISIR’ as herein shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17193 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.