US Plant Patent PP17165

WALBREYES

Crocosmia plant named ‘WALBREYES’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 4, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 13, 2025. This patent earned 52 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17165
Filed: September 13, 2005
Granted: October 24, 2006
Expires: November 4, 2025
Assignee: TRISTRAM DAVID
Inventor: TRISTRAM DAVID

Abstract

A new cultivar of Crocosmia named ‘Walbreyes’ that is characterized by an upright clumping habit, short height, and free-flowering sterile yellow/orange flowers with red centers that face reasonably upward. In combination these traits set ‘Walbreyes’ apart from all other existing varieties of Crocosmia known to the inventor.

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

1. A new and distinct variety of Crocosmia plant named ‘Walbreyes’ as described and illustrated.

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