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US Plant Patent PP34266

Gold Drop

Buddleia plant named ‘Gold Drop’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends February 1, 2042.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP34266, the photograph of Gold Drop printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP34266, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP34266
Filed
February 1, 2022
Granted
May 24, 2022
Expires
February 1, 2042
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental, hardy Butterfly Bush plant named Buddleia ‘Gold Drop’ is a compact, open, round-mounded, multi-stemmed, compact, arching, winter-hardy butterfly bush with many-flowered compact thyrse starting early and over a long season beginning mid-summer, from soil line to top of plant, with sweetly-fragrant deep-purple to deep reddish-purple flowers that are attractively offset by light yellow to vivid yellow foliage.

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 ‘Gold Drop’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP34266 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.