US Plant Patent PP5209
Anne Arundel
Hibiscus plant named "Anne Arundel"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 24, 2002. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
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
- PP5209
- Filed
- September 24, 1982
- Granted
- March 20, 1984
- Expires
- September 24, 2002
- Inventor
- DARBY ROBERT H
Abstract
The present invention is a new and distinct Hibiscus plant cultivar named "Anne Arundel," resulting from a definite effort, over a period of time, to produce by hybridization and selection a clear pink of elegant form and substance, a plant of great landscape value blooming profusely from midsummer to frost, a plant as excellent in its way as the brilliant red Hibiscus "Lord Baltimore" and the pink-and-red bicolor Hibiscus "Lady Baltimore" (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,271).
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive cultivar of hibiscus substantially as herein shown and described, having a pink flower of elegant form and substance, a plant of great landscape value, blooming profusely from midsummer to frost.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5209 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.