Skip to content
The Patent Garden

US Plant Patent PP16917

Gamad I

Crapemyrtle plant named ‘Gamad I’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 1, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 15, 2025. This patent earned 47 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16917, the photograph of Gamad I printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16917, 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
PP16917
Filed
March 15, 2005
Granted
August 1, 2006
Expires
May 1, 2025
Assignee
UNIV GEORGIA RES FOUND
Inventor
DIRR MICHAEL A

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of crapemyrtle, Lagerstroemia indica×L. fauriei , which is characterized by compact-mounded growth habit; bronze-green emerging leaves, lustrous dark green in summer, yellow-orange-red in fall; high leaf powdery mildew and Cercospora leaf spot resistance; glossy red buds; cherry red flowers that are colorful from mid-July to early September in Athens, Ga.

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

1. A new and distinct cultivar of crapemyrtle plant named ‘Gamad I’, substantially as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16917 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.