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US Plant Patent PP28903

Prince Charming

Buddleia plant named ‘Prince Charming’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 1, 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 PP28903, the photograph of Prince Charming printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP28903, 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
PP28903
Filed
December 1, 2016
Granted
January 30, 2018
Expires
December 1, 2036
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

Buddleia ‘Prince Charming’ is a short, compact, mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy butterfly bush with long, compact, flowering, thyrse over a long season beginning mid-summer with sweetly-fragrant flowers of bright cerise-pink to raspberry-pink petals that are attractively offset by dark green foliage with silvery undersides. 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 ‘Prince Charming’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP28903 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.