US Plant Patent PP4271
Lady Baltimore
Hibiscus plant named Lady Baltimore
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 22, 1997. 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
- PP4271
- Filed
- September 22, 1977
- Granted
- June 27, 1978
- Expires
- September 22, 1997
- Inventor
- DARBY ROBERT H
Abstract
The present invention relates to a new and distinct Hibiscus plant cultivar named "Lady Baltimore," resulting from a definite effort, over a period of time, to produce by hybridization and selection a pink-and-red bicolor 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."
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, a glowing pink-and-red bicolor of elegant form and substance, a plant of great landscape value, blooming profusely from midsummer to frost.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4271 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.