US Plant Patent PP4688
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Azalea plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 19, 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
- PP4688
- Filed
- February 19, 1980
- Granted
- April 14, 1981
- Expires
- February 19, 2000
- Inventor
- BRANIGAN JENNIFER
Abstract
An azalea plant having medium-sized, bright-red hose-in-hose flowers in clusters of three to five on terminal ends of branches. The plant branches well, is compact, and is extremely winter-hardy in the Washington, D.C. area. The flowers on a given plant come into bloom simultaneously and force well when buds are set outdoors. The plant naturally blooms about April 27th in Washington, D.C.
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 substantially as herein illustrated and described and characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of a bright red color with spontaneous bloom wherein most buds progress to bloom essentially simultaneously particularly as compared with its pollen parent "hexe"; very winter-hardy in the Washington, D.C. area without tip-burning of leaves; moderately compact and dwarfish with 3 to 5 hose-in-hose florets making up a firm truss on the terminal portions of short stems; and, further characterized in that the plant forces and roots well from cuttings taken either before or after bud set.
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