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US Plant Patent PP16372

YBAZ1885

Azalea plant named ‘YBAZ1885’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 22, 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 21 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16372, the photograph of YBAZ1885 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16372, 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
PP16372
Filed
February 1, 2005
Granted
March 21, 2006
Expires
February 22, 2025
Assignee
YODER BROTHERS INC
Inventor
BERGMAN WENDY R

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Azalea plant named ‘YBAZ1885’, 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; plants being flowering about 33 days after cooling treatment; large, showy light lavender-colored flowers; semi-double to double flower form; good postproduction longevity with plants maintaining good flower substance for about three to four 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 ‘YBAZ1885’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16372 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.