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US Plant Patent PP13751

Pink Comet

Hibiscus plant named: ‘Pink Comet’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 30, 2022. 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 PP13751, the photograph of Pink Comet printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13751, 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
PP13751
Filed
July 30, 2002
Granted
April 29, 2003
Expires
July 30, 2022
Inventor
ZWETZIG GRETCHEN ANGELA; FLEMING DAVID WHITMAN

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of winter hardy hibiscus plant named ‘Pink Comet’ is the result of a unique hybridization. This new and distinct cultivar is characterized primarily as to novelty by its tropical aspects, its extreme cold hardiness to Zone 4, its medium-sized, thick-textured, pink flowers with pale pink to white reverse having multiple markings of red and pink on both sides of the petals and its shiny green leaves and unusual compactness of about 2 feet, its vigorous and uniform growth habit, and its floriferous nature from midsummer until frost, and its genetic achievement as a cross between a tropical and hardy Hibiscus.

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.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13751 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.