US Plant Patent PP10152
Ravel
Hydrangea plant named `Ravel`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 5, 2016. 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
- PP10152
- Filed
- July 5, 1996
- Granted
- December 16, 1997
- Expires
- July 5, 2016
- Assignee
- BAY CITY FLOWER CO
- Inventor
- SOUSA JOSE R
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Hydrangea macrophylla (Thunb.) named `Ravel` which originated as a sport from the inventor's controlled commercial growing of the non-patented Hydrangea macrophylla cultivar `Merritts Supreme`, and is distinguished from its parent by the unique pigmentation pattern which causes the florets and inflorescence to be both pink and white, and gives each floret a white center and four pink fan-shaped points at the outer edges, resulting in a pink and white flower at the peak of its bloom, not predominantly a pink flower. The new variety `Ravel` further possesses the favorable characteristics of: agressive, compact growth habit; long lasting large flowers and the ability to be easily forced in a greenhouse for flowering in the spring.
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 Hydrangea plant variety of the Saxifragaceae family substantially as herein shown and described.
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