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US Plant Patent PP8826

Sundance

Bougainvillea hybrid cv. Sundance

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
PP8826
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 yellow green non-woody stems, peduncles, and pedicels; its light yellow, light green and dark green variegated young leaves, and flower bracts which change from orange to empire rose as they mature.

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 described herein, characterized by its unique combination of floriferous habit, orange colored bracts, which change to empire rose-color as they mature, light and dark green leaf variegation of new growth, and its yellowish stems, peduncles and pedicels.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8826 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.