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
- Assignee
- HATTEN S NURSERY INC
- 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.