US Plant Patent PP11853
Fantasia
Hibiscus plant named ‘Fantasia’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 12, 2019. 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
- PP11853
- Filed
- April 12, 1999
- Granted
- May 1, 2001
- Expires
- April 12, 2019
- Inventor
- FLEMING DAVID W; ZWETZIG GRETCHEN A
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of winter hardy hibiscus plant named ‘Fantasia’ is the result of a unique hybridization. This new and distinct cultivar is characterized primarily as to novelty by its extreme cold hardiness to Zone 4, its compact, rounded green “maple-cut” leaves, its medium-sized, ruffled lavender flowers with thick substance, its vigorous and compact growth habit, and its floriferous nature from midsummer until frost.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant, as herein shown and described, characterized by its compact stature, its refined green “maple-cut” foliage, its ruffled Lavender flowers, its vigor, and its hardiness.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11853 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.