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US Plant Patent PP23800

Dancing Butterflies Two

Hydrangea plant named ‘Dancing Butterflies Two’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends March 6, 2032.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 1, 2031. This patent earned 126 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP23800, the photograph of Dancing Butterflies Two printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP23800, 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
PP23800
Filed
November 1, 2011
Granted
August 6, 2013
Expires
March 6, 2032
Assignee
GRAY JOSEPH
Inventor
GRAY JOSEPH

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hydrangea macrophylla named ‘Dancing Butterflies Two’ that is characterized by its remontant (re-blooming) habit, blooming from May until frost, its lacecap type inflorescences with single sterile flowers surrounding a mass of fertile flowers, its flowers that are light pink in color in color when grown with a soil PH of 7 or above, its sterile flowers with sepals that have a white margin on the sepals, and its cutting rooting rate that is at least 95%.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Hydrangea plant named ‘Dancing Butterflies Two’ substantially as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP23800 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.