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US Plant Patent PP28177

Magenta Munchkin

Buddleia plant named ‘Magenta Munchkin’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 31, 2036.

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 PP28177, the photograph of Magenta Munchkin printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP28177, 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
PP28177
Filed
May 31, 2016
Granted
July 11, 2017
Expires
May 31, 2036
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

Buddleia ‘Magenta Munchkin’ is a short, compact, mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy butterfly bush with long, dense-flowering, outward to slightly drooping thyrse with sweetly-fragrant fuchsia-red flower faces and yellowish orange throats starting early from mid-summer until frost, from soil line to top of plant, that are attractively offset by dark green foliage with silvery white undersides.

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

I claim: 1. A new cultivar of winter-hardy butterfly bush Buddleia plant named ‘Magenta Munchkin’ as herein illustrated and described, especially suitable for potted plant culture, landscaping as a specimen or en masse or as cut flower purposes.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP28177 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.