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
- Assignee
- WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
- 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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