US Plant Patent PP4929
Southern Belle
Azalea plant named Southern Belle
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 15, 2000. 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
- PP4929
- Filed
- December 15, 1980
- Granted
- November 9, 1982
- Expires
- December 15, 2000
- Inventor
- MITCHELL LUTHER L
Abstract
An azalea plant characterized by its variegated foliage and pink, hose-in-hose blossoms.
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 cultivar of the Rutherford azalea, with features herein shown and described, characterized by the distinct narrow, yellow-white margins.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4929 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.