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US Plant Patent PP17251

Rainbow's End

Hosta plant named ‘Rainbow's End’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 29, 2025. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17251, the photograph of Rainbow's End printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17251, 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
PP17251
Filed
September 29, 2005
Granted
November 28, 2006
Expires
September 29, 2025
Assignee
SHADY OAKS NURSERY LLC
Inventor
HANSEN HANS ANDREW

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hosta named ‘Rainbow's End’, a sport of Hosta ‘Obsession’, that is characterized by its unique variegated foliage with dark green margins comprising about one third of the leaf area and centers that emerge yellow green and turn creamy white. ‘Rainbow's End’ is a medium sized Hosta with a mounded plant habit and pale violet flowers held above the foliage in late summer.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Hosta plant named ‘Rainbow's End’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17251 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.