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US Plant Patent PP20376

Frozen Flame

Hebe plant named ‘Frozen Flame’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends July 30, 2028.

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 PP20376, the photograph of Frozen Flame printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP20376, 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
PP20376
Filed
July 30, 2008
Granted
October 6, 2009
Expires
July 30, 2028
Inventor
VAN NIEKERK JOHAN

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hebe, ‘Frozen Flame’, characterized by its vigorous growth habit, its narrow, variegated foliage with green-gray centers and white margins that is suffused with purple in cool temperatures in spring, and its free flowering habit with racemes of lavender flowers for 6 to 8 weeks in mid summer into autumn.

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 Hebe plant named ‘Frozen Flame’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP20376 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.