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US Plant Patent PP37116

Cherry Royale

Buddleia plant named ‘Cherry Royale’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 29, 2045.

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
PP37116
Filed
January 29, 2025
Granted
December 2, 2025
Expires
January 29, 2045
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct plant of Buddleia ‘Cherry Royale’ is a winter-hardy shrub with multi-stemmed, well-branched, rounded, mounded habit. The bright rose-pink, sweetly-fragrant flowers are held in many upwardly to slightly outwardly thyrse beginning in mid-summer and continuing until frost. Foliage is lanceolate and dark green above with silvery undersides. Fertility is reduced to nearly sterile. The new plant is valuable for landscaping en masse, as an accent or as a potted specimen.

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

It is claimed: 1 . A new cultivar of winter-hardy butterfly bush, Buddleia plant named ‘Cherry Royale’ as herein illustrated and described.

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