Chance Encounter

Hosta plant named ‘Chance Encounter’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 29, 2043.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP36151, the photograph of Chance Encounter printed in the patent.

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Abstract

A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Chance Encounter’ of large, arching mounds of broadly ovate, bluish-green leaves having wide chartreuse margins upon emerging and maturing to yellowish-chartreuse margins. The variegation is also attractively displayed with numerous featherings of intermediate colors between the center and the leaf margins. The flowers are very pale purple to near white held just above the foliage beginning in late June for about three weeks. ‘Chance Encounter’ has an excellent, very large, mounded habit and is useful in the landscape, as a specimen or en masse.

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It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Chance Encounter’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP36151 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

Chance Encounter

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