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US Plant Patent PP33265

Voices in the Wind

Hosta plant named ‘Voices in the Wind’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 18, 2040.

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 PP33265, the photograph of Voices in the Wind printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP33265, 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
PP33265
Filed
December 18, 2020
Granted
July 13, 2021
Expires
December 18, 2040
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Voices in the Wind’ of medium-sized, arching, long, lanceolate, bluish-green leaves having wavy creamy-yellow margins with numerous feathering intermediate colors and a narrowly acute curling apex. The flowers are pale lavender with darker lavender veins appearing in mid-July. Prior to flower bud opening, the floral bracts produce a broad, short, light lavender, water-lily effect of compact lanceolate bracts. ‘Voices in the Wind’ is attractive and is useful in the landscape, as a specimen or en masse or as a container plant.

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 cultivar named Hosta ‘Voices in the Wind’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP33265 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.