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US Plant Patent PP30959

Dark Chocolate

Baptisia plant named ‘Dark Chocolate’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 20, 2038.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP30959, the photograph of Dark Chocolate printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP30959, 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
PP30959
Filed
November 20, 2018
Granted
October 22, 2019
Expires
November 20, 2038
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and distinct plant cultivar of hardy herbaceous false indigo named Baptisia ‘Dark Chocolate’ characterized by chocolatey purple flowers on very long spikes maintaining their coloration from bud to anthesis. The new plant has an upright, short, mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with glaucous medium-green tri-foliate foliage and is suitable for landscaping as a specimen or en masse.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct plant cultivar of hardy herbaceous false indigo named Baptisia ‘Dark Chocolate’ as herein described and illustrated.

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