US Plant Patent PP8166
Tangerine
Hibiscus plant named Tangerine
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 12, 2011. 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
- PP8166
- Filed
- August 12, 1991
- Granted
- March 2, 1993
- Expires
- August 12, 2011
Abstract
A hibiscus plant named Tangerine, particularly characterized by its orange-red flower color with a dark red eye, regular flower form, flower 11 cm in diameter, flower life of a single day, excellent pot habit, compact growth, easy to propagate, better than average resistance to bud drop, and dark green glossy foliage which is deeply lobed with serrated margins.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus named Tangerine, as shown and described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8166 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.