US Plant Patent PP19391
LPDC Podaras
Diervilla plant named ‘LPDC Podaras’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends August 27, 2027.
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
- PP19391
- Filed
- August 27, 2007
- Granted
- October 28, 2008
- Expires
- August 27, 2027
- Assignee
- LANDSCAPE PLANT DEV CT
- Inventor
- PODARAS PETER; PELLETT HAROLD M
Abstract
A new cultivar of Diervilla sessilifolia, ‘LPDC Podaras’, characterized by its variegated leaves with deep green centers surrounded by yellow to creamy white margins, its red stems, its cymes of yellow honeysuckle-like flowers in early summer, its hardiness to U.S.D.A Zone 4, its ease of propagation by softwood cuttings and its vigorous growth rate.
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1. A new and distinct cultivar of Diervilla plant named ‘LPDC Podaras’ as herein illustrated and described.
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