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US Plant Patent PP15339

Roblec

Azalea plant named ‘Roblec’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 15, 2024. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15339, the photograph of Roblec printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15339, 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
PP15339
Filed
March 15, 2004
Granted
November 16, 2004
Expires
March 15, 2024
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 ‘Shroeder's Pink Perfection’ 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 semi-double pink 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 distinct variety of Azalea plant named ‘Roblec’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15339 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.