US Plant Patent PP13681

Robleb

Azalea plant named ‘Robleb’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 31, 2022. 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.

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The record

Patent number: PP13681
Filed: May 31, 2002
Granted: March 25, 2003
Expires: May 31, 2022
Assignee: PLANT DEV SERVICES INC
Inventor: LEE ROBERT EDWARD

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Azalea plant found as a seedling in a planned cross between the female Azalea ‘Red Slippers’ and the male Rhododendron oldhamii ‘Fourth of July’. The new variety possesses a unique blooming time and is superior in development of an upright, dense, globose shaped plant with attractive large single to semi-double red flowers.

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

I claim: 1. A new and unique variety of Azalea plant named ‘Robleb’ as herein shown and described.

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