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US Plant Patent PP8827

Blushing Beauty

Bougainvillea hybrid cv. Blushing Beauty

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 30, 2013. 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
PP8827
Filed
April 30, 1993
Granted
July 12, 1994
Expires
April 30, 2013
Inventor
HATTEN WILLIAM A

Abstract

A new and distinct Bougainvillea particularly distinguished from other Bougainvillea plants by its pale pink blush-colored flower bracts. The bracts having a trace of white on each side of a green midrib; its peduncles, pedicils and young stems are yellowish, with its young leaves exhibiting a definite variegation of light and dark green.

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 Bougainvillea plant as substantially shown and herein described, characterized by its unique combination of a very floriferous habit, pink-blush flower bracts with a trace of white on each side of a green midrib, the green outer surface of its calyx tubes, and the light and dark green variegation of its foilage.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8827 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.