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US Plant Patent PP10751

Ruby

Hydrangea paniculata `Ruby`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 22, 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
PP10751
Filed
April 22, 1997
Granted
January 12, 1999
Expires
April 22, 2017
Inventor
DE BELDER JELENA

Abstract

A new and distinct selection of Panicle Hydrangea which shall be referred to hereinafter as Hydrangea paniculata cultivar Ruby. Hydrangea paniculata cultivar Ruby differs distinctively from other Hydrangea paniculata plants by its unique combination of daintier, graceful growth habit and smaller more numerous showy sterile flower sepals and dark autumn color of flower sepals.

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 paniculata plant substantially as shown and described which differs distinctively from other Hydrangea paniculata plants by its unique combination of daintier, graceful growth habit and smaller more numerous showy sterile flower sepals and dark autumn color of flower sepals.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10751 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.