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US Plant Patent PP37053

Awakening Spirit

Hosta plant named ‘Awakening Spirit’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 20, 2044.

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
PP37053
Filed
December 20, 2024
Granted
October 21, 2025
Expires
December 20, 2044
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Awakening Spirit’ producing large-sized rounded mounds of basal, broadly-cordate to rounded, large-sized leaves with acute apices, cordate bases, and slightly wavy margins. The leaves are variegated having glaucous bluish-green margins and centers that begin the season chartreuse and become creamy as the season progresses with intermediate colors between the margin and center of variably large segments of several shades of chartreuse. The campanulate flowers are near pale purple just above the foliage beginning in late June. ‘Awakening Spirit’ is useful in the landscape, as a container plant, a specimen or en masse.

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 Hosta plant named ‘Awakening Spirit’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP37053 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.