US Plant Patent PP16716
Pacharl
Geranium plant named ‘Pacharl’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 28, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 5, 2025. This patent earned 54 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16716
- Filed
- March 5, 2005
- Granted
- June 27, 2006
- Expires
- April 28, 2025
- Assignee
- ELSNER JUNGPFLANZEN
- Inventor
- MICHALIK ANDREA
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Ivy Geranium plant named ‘Pacharl’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading and trailing plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely basal branching and flowering habit; large, single and scarlet red-colored flowers; and good garden performance.
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1. A new and distinct cultivar of Ivy Geranium plant named ‘Pacharl’, as herein illustrated and described.
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