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US Plant Patent PP9838

Bost Hybrid No. 4

Hibiscus plant named `Bost Hybrid No. 4`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 17, 2016. 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
PP9838
Filed
January 17, 1996
Granted
March 25, 1997
Expires
January 17, 2016
Inventor
BOST GEORGIA A

Abstract

An herbaceous perennial Hibiscus plant having numerous large polypetalous flowers with blushed deep raspberry red overlapping petal arrangement, a dark red eye, buds of darker red, and medium-sized well-branched, upright plants with one- or three-lobed leaves of dark green color.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus plant, as shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9838 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.