US Plant Patent PP4749
Azalea plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 11, 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
- PP4749
- Filed
- February 11, 1980
- Granted
- June 30, 1981
- Expires
- February 11, 2000
- Inventor
- KERRIGAN HOWARD
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of Azalea plant named "Super Red" which is a hybrid cultivar of pollen parent U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,939 named "Ripples" and undisseminated seedling 57 D-2. "Super Red" is distinctly different than either of its parents or any other azalea of which I am aware, in that it has a very large, very double, clear red flower and an unusually rapid and strong growth habit.
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 as described and illustrated, known by the cultivar name "Super Red", and particularly characterized by the extra double, very large, clear red bloom on a vigorous, fast-growing plant with excellent foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4749 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.