US Plant Patent PP11920
Promise
Azalea plant named ‘Promise’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 7, 2020. 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
- PP11920
- Filed
- February 7, 2000
- Granted
- June 12, 2001
- Expires
- February 7, 2020
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- GLICENSTEIN LEON
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Azalea plant named ‘Promise’, characterized by its shiny dark green leaves that do not abscise during the cooling and forcing periods; dense, uniform and outwardly spreading plant habit; freely branching habit; rapid flowering after forcing; numerous large coral-colored flowers with smooth petal margins; double flower form; excellent postproduction longevity with plants maintaining good flower substance for more than four weeks in an interior environment; and very 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 ‘Promise’, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11920 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.