US Plant Patent PP11405
Monrey
Hydrangea macrophylla named `Monrey`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 11, 2017. 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP11405
- Filed
- April 11, 1997
- Granted
- June 6, 2000
- Expires
- April 11, 2017
- Assignee
- MONROVIA NURSERY CO
- Inventor
- USREY WILLIAM B
Abstract
A new and distinct selection of French Hydrangea which shall be referred to hereinafter as Hydrangea macrophylla cultivar Monrey. Hydrangea macrophylla cultivar Monrey differs distinctively from other Hydrangea macrophylla plants by a unique combination of deep pink flower sepals with margins edged white, lustrous deep green foliage and foliage which turns a light burgundy color in cool weather.
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 selection of Hydrangea macrophylla plant as substantially shown and described herein, that is characterized particularly as a novelty by the unique combination of deep pink flower sepals with margins edged white, lustrous deep green foliage and foliage which turns a light burgundy color in cooler weather.
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