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US Plant Patent PP26426

QUFU

Hydrangea plant named ‘QUFU’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 17, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 30, 2033. This patent earned 229 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP26426, the photograph of QUFU printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP26426, 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
PP26426
Filed
September 30, 2013
Granted
February 23, 2016
Expires
May 17, 2034
Assignee
KOLSTER HOLDING B V, Horteve Breeding BV
Inventor
EVELEENS CORNELIS PIETER

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hydrangea macrophylla named ‘QUFU’ that is characterized by its inflorescences with a flattened shape, its sterile flowers with very hard, almost leathery sepals and its sterile flowers with sepals that are green and pink with white-pink veins when newly opened becoming greener with age, and its good cut flower quality lasting at least 3 weeks as a fresh cut and for many months as a dried cut (when “classic”).

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 ‘QUFU’ substantially as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP26426 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.