US Plant Patent PP7608
Sweet Caroline
Hibiscus plant named `Sweet Caroline`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 20, 2010. 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
- PP7608
- Filed
- April 20, 1990
- Granted
- July 30, 1991
- Expires
- April 20, 2010
Abstract
An herbaceous perennial Hibiscus plant named `Sweet Caroline` having numerous broadly campanulate flowers of bright pink with petal edges ruffled and partially reflexed, buds of similar color having the exposed petal edge reflexed, and, upright plants branching apically with shallowly lobed basal and entire upper leaves of a medium green color.
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 plant named `Sweet Caroline`, substantially as herein shown and described, having pink flowrs and buds with reflexed petal margins, a plant suitable for landscape use that blooms from midsummer until frost.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7608 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.