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
- Assignee
- WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
- 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.
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