US Plant Patent PP22653

Grace Kelly

Hebe plant named ‘Grace Kelly’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends March 15, 2031.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

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The record

Patent number: PP22653
Filed: March 15, 2011
Granted: April 17, 2012
Expires: March 15, 2031
Assignee: BURTON STEPHEN
Inventor: BURTON STEPHEN

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hebe , ‘Grace Kelly’, characterized by its large leaves that are variegated with greyed-green centers and distinct creamy white margins with a red-purple central vein, its young leaves that are tinged with yellow at the tips, its foliage that is resistant to leaf spot and its medium sized racemes that are red-purple in color.

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 ‘Grace Kelly’ as herein illustrated and described.

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