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US Plant Patent PP16781

Spring Picotee

Azalea plant named ‘Spring Picotee’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 7, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 30, 2025. This patent earned 38 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16781, the photograph of Spring Picotee printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16781, 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
PP16781
Filed
April 30, 2005
Granted
July 11, 2006
Expires
June 7, 2025
Assignee
YODER BROTHERS INC
Inventor
BERGMAN WENDY R

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Azalea plant named ‘Spring Picotee’, characterized by its dark green-colored leaves that do not abscise during the cooling and forcing periods; uniform and outwardly spreading plant habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; relatively rapid flowering response; large red purple and light pink bi-colored flowers; hose-in-hose flower form; and good postproduction longevity with plants maintaining good flower substance for about 26 days in an interior environment.

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

1. A new and distinct Azalea plant named ‘Spring Picotee’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16781 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.