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US Plant Patent PP13247

Kuga Variegated

Hydrangea anomala subspecies petiolaris plant named ‘Kuga Variegated’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 22, 2020. 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 PP13247, the photograph of Kuga Variegated printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13247, 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
PP13247
Filed
June 22, 2000
Granted
November 19, 2002
Expires
June 22, 2020
Assignee
HINES NURSERIES INC
Inventor
SHIMIZU TOSHIRO

Abstract

A new plant variety of Hydrangea anomala subspecies petiolaris having new shoots and foliage that emerge white, cream, pale yellow to pink with pink stems. Foliage goes through a phase in which leaves are flecked/dotted cream to pale yellow sometimes with margin pale yellow in an irregular variegated pattern. Mature foliage is viridescent with leaves becoming green.

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

I claim: 1. A new plant of Hydrangea anomala subspecies petiolaris substantially as shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13247 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.