US Plant Patent PP16499
YBAZ1812
Azalea plant named ‘YBAZ1812’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 5, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 1, 2025. This patent earned 63 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16499
- Filed
- February 1, 2005
- Granted
- May 2, 2006
- Expires
- April 5, 2025
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- BERGMAN WENDY R
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Azalea plant named ‘YBAZ1812’, 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; uniform and freely flowering habit; relatively rapid flowering response; large showy light coral pink-colored flowers with random darker pink-colored flecks and spots; double flower form with numerous petals and petaloids; excellent postproduction longevity with plants maintaining good flower substance for about five to six weeks in an interior environment; and very good resistance to Cylindrocladium in inoculated trials.
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 ‘YBAZ1812’, as illustrated and described.
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