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US Plant Patent PP12963

Ornament

Azalea plant named ‘Ornament’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 10, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 25, 2021. This patent earned 15 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP12963, the photograph of Ornament printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP12963, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP12963
Filed
June 25, 2001
Granted
September 17, 2002
Expires
July 10, 2021
Assignee
YODER BROTHERS INC
Inventor
GLICENSTEIN LEON; BERGMAN WENDY R

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Azalea plant named ‘Ornament’, characterized by its very dark green glossy leaves that do not abscise during the cooling and forcing periods; large plants with dense and outwardly spreading plant habit; vigorous growth habit; very freely branching habit; rapid flowering response; numerous, large and showy soft pinkish red-colored flowers; hose-in-hose flower form; ruffled petal margins; good postproduction longevity; and 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 ‘Ornament’, as illustrated

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12963 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.