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US Plant Patent PP16895

Journey's End

Hosta plant names ‘Journey's End’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 11, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 6, 2025. This patent earned 5 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16895, the photograph of Journey's End printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16895, 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
PP16895
Filed
April 6, 2005
Granted
July 25, 2006
Expires
April 11, 2025
Assignee
SHADY OAKS NURSERY LLC
Inventor
HANSEN HANS ANDREW

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hosta named ‘Journey's End’, a sport of Hosta ‘Choo Choo Train’, that is characterized by its unique variegated foliage with yellow-green centers and green margins comprising about one third to one half of the leaf area. ‘Journey's End’ has a mounded plant habit of large broad leaves, a vigorous growth rate, and pale lavender flowers held above the foliage in early to mid 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 ‘Journey's End’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16895 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.