US Plant Patent PP26657
H2002
Hydrangea plant named ‘H2002’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends June 14, 2034.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 28, 2034. This patent earned 17 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP26657
- Filed
- May 28, 2014
- Granted
- April 26, 2016
- Expires
- June 14, 2034
- Assignee
- IRIE RYOJI
- Inventor
- IRIE RYOJI
Abstract
A new cultivar of Hydrangea macrophylla named ‘H2002’ that is characterized by its double sterile flowers with sepals that are light yellow-green to white with red margins, its free flowering and repeating blooming habit, its rounded mop-head type inflorescences, its young foliage that is tinged with greyed-red, and its lack of fertile flowers.
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It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Hydrangea plant named ‘H2002’ substantially as herein illustrated and described.
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