US Plant Patent PP18386

Mocha

Heuchera plant named ‘Mocha’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends October 3, 2026.

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: PP18386
Filed: October 3, 2006
Granted: January 1, 2008
Expires: October 3, 2026
Assignee: DELABROYE SANDRINE
Inventor: DELABROYE SANDRINE

Abstract

A new cultivar of Heuchera×villosa, ‘Mocha’, characterized by its very dark colored foliage, its large cordate-shaped leaves on rosy red petioles, its compact and mounded plant habit, its tolerance to heat, humidity, and exposure to sunlight, and its hardiness in U.S.D.A. Zones 4 to 9.

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 Heuchera plant named ‘Mocha’ as herein illustrated and described.

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