Valencia Fizz

Valencia Fizz

Choisya plant named ‘Valencia Fizz’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends February 9, 2044.

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 PP36389, the photograph of Valencia Fizz printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP36389, 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.

Abstract

A new cultivar of Choisya plant named ‘Valencia Fizz’ that is characterized by its naturally branching spherical dense plant habit with short internodes and numerous basal and lateral branches. The foliage of ‘Valencia Fizz’ is dense and dark green in color when mature and exhibits orange blossom fragrance. The newly emerging foliage of ‘Valencia Fizz’ is lighter green-yellow in color. The flowers of ‘Valencia Fizz’ are borne in many compound corymbs, and are very numerous and relatively large for the genus and its varieties. The flowers of ‘Valencia Fizz’ are pleasantly sweetly fragrant, reminiscent of orange blossom. The flowers of ‘Valencia Fizz’ are rotate and bear five rotate free petals. ‘Valencia Fizz’ blooms profusely in May to August and sporadically in early and mid-spring and in late summer.

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I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Choisya Plant Named ‘Valencia Fizz’ as described and illustrated herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP36389 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

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