US Plant Patent PP22768

DUP-FXL

Hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-FXL’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 12, 2030.

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: PP22768
Filed: April 12, 2010
Granted: June 5, 2012
Expires: April 12, 2030
Assignee: DUPONT SR ROBERT J
Inventor: DUPONT SR ROBERT J

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-FXL’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, extensively upright, sturdy growth, and large flowers having a rib of each petal which is currant red and which is sharply margined on the underlapping side with bright white. Pale red veins traverse a velvet-textured red zone which radiates to blush pink at the petal margins.

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

1. A new and distinct hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-FXL’, as illustrated and described.

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