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
- Assignee
- MONROVIA NURSERY CO
- 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.
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