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US Plant Patent PP23565

Wheee!

Hosta plant named ‘Wheee!’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 19, 2031.

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 PP23565, the photograph of Wheee! printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP23565, 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
PP23565
Filed
April 19, 2011
Granted
April 23, 2013
Expires
April 19, 2031
Assignee
MEYER WILLIAM J
Inventor
MEYER WILLIAM J

Abstract

A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Wheee!’ characterized by light lavender flowers on strong erect scapes over broadly horizontal mounds of intensely-sinuate elliptic leaves having yellow margins, leaf blade centers of light green. Hosta ‘Wheee!’ emerges in the spring with distinct, broad, intensely-sinuate bracts or intermediate leaves partially clasping and surrounding emerging shoots, petioles and expanding leaves.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct ornamental plant cultivar named Hosta ‘Wheee!’ as herein described and illustrated, comprising emerging shoots with broad intensely-sinuate bracts or intermediate leaves partially clasping and surrounding emerging shoots petioles and expanding leaves, with intensely-sinuate elliptic leaves having yellow margins, leaf blade centers of light green, light lavender flowers on strongly erect scapes suitable as a potted plant, for the garden, and for cut flower or cut foliage arrangements.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP23565 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.