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US Plant Patent PP15091

Whit XX

Hibiscus plant named ‘Whit XX’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 4, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 23, 2023. This patent earned 12 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15091, the photograph of Whit XX printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15091, 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
PP15091
Filed
October 23, 2003
Granted
August 17, 2004
Expires
November 4, 2023
Assignee
LACEBARK INC
Inventor
WHITCOMB CARL

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of winter hardy hibiscus named ‘Whit XX’ is the result of a chance seedling among a seedling population specifically grown for the purpose of screening for variations. This new and distinct cultivar is characterized by being dwarf in stature relative to the species and all other seedlings from the same parent, has blood red flowers that are between about 3.5 and about 6 inches in diameter. The plant is further characterized as having unusually dark green, broadly lanceolate leaves, with a uniform growth habit of dense, stiff branches. Flower production occurs from early July to frost in north central Oklahoma.

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 variety of a hardy hibiscus plant, substantially as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15091 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.