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US Plant Patent PP13630

Old Yella

Hibiscus plant named ‘Old Yella’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 29, 2020. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13630, the photograph of Old Yella printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13630, 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
PP13630
Filed
June 29, 2000
Granted
March 11, 2003
Expires
June 29, 2020
Inventor
FLEMING DAVID WHITMAN

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of winter hardy hibiscus plant named ‘Old Yella’ 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 large, thick-textured, pale yellow flowers and its green-leaved plants with bright yellow buds before onset of flowering, 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.

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus plant, as herein shown and described, characterized by its compact

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13630 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.