US Plant Patent PP9555
Pink Wonder
Hibiscus plant named `Pink Wonder`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 1, 2015. 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
- PP9555
- Filed
- May 1, 1995
- Granted
- May 21, 1996
- Expires
- May 1, 2015
- Inventor
- MORRISON WILLIAM L
Abstract
This invention is a new and distinct winter hardy Hibiscus plant cultivar named `Pink Wonder` resulting from a definite effort over 14 years by selection and hybridization that produces a very large brilliant pink flower of elegant form and substance on a plant which has many landscape applications blooming profusely from midsummer to frost with flowers that maintain their shape for two to four days each.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A spectacular new and distinctive cultivar of winter hardy hibiscus substantially as herein shown and described that can be left outside over the winter in freezing temperatures with exceptionally large bright pink flowers of elegant form and substance on a plant of great landscape value blooming continuously from mid-summer to frost with the individual flowers holding their shape two to four days.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9555 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.