US Plant Patent PP32252
Clowning Around
Caladium plant named ‘Clowning Around’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends February 13, 2039.
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
- PP32252
- Filed
- February 13, 2019
- Granted
- September 29, 2020
- Expires
- February 13, 2039
- Assignee
- HARTMAN ROBERT DALE
- Inventor
- HARTMAN ROBERT DALE
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘Clowning Around’, characterized by its intermediate to tall height; upright and mounding plant habit; dense and bushy appearance; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; fancy-type leaves that have dark green-colored margins with greyed red, greyed purple and red-colored centers with random dark green-colored spots and blotches; and leaf petioles that are medium green flushed with greyed red in color with dark greenish brown-colored stippling, streaks and tessellations.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct Caladium plant named ‘Clowning Around’ as illustrated and described.
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