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US Plant Patent PP21434

James Fleming

Hibiscus plant named “James Fleming”

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 18, 2028.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP21434, the photograph of James Fleming printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP21434, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP21434
Filed
December 18, 2008
Granted
November 2, 2010
Expires
December 18, 2028
Assignee
FLEMING DAVID WHITMAN
Inventor
FLEMING DAVID WHITMAN

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of winter hardy Hibiscus plant named ‘James Fleming’ is the result of a unique hybridization. This new and distinct cultivar is characterized primarily to its novelty by, its extreme cold hardiness to Zone 4, large, thick-textured, light pink flowers and its ‘maple-shaped’ leaves with a purple coloration, compact ness of about 3 feet, its vigorous and uniform 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.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of hardy Hibiscus plant, as herein shown and described, characterized by its compact nature, refined purplish “maple-like” foliage of a purple coloration, its large glowing light pink flowers, its vigor and its hardiness.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP21434 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.