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US Plant Patent PP35646

Peppermint Patty

Bergenia plant named ‘Peppermint Patty’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends July 11, 2043.

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 PP35646, the photograph of Peppermint Patty printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP35646, 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
PP35646
Filed
July 11, 2023
Granted
February 6, 2024
Expires
July 11, 2043
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and distinct Heartleaf Bergenia plant, Bergenia plant named ‘Peppermint Patty’ with a dense mounded habit, medium to large-sized, densely-arranged, deep-green, glossy, obovate, evergreen foliage with serrate to dentate and ciliolate margins. The flowers are campanulate on large heavily-branched panicles over a long period beginning in spring. The flowers open white and develop pink centers and margins and hold up well in the garden as a landscape plant or as cut flowers. The new plant has a medium growth rate and the foliage is naturally resistant to deer and rabbit foraging.

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 cultivar of Bergenia plant named ‘Peppermint Patty’ as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP35646 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.