US Plant Patent PP22070
Santiago
Hydrangea plant named ‘Santiago’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends June 1, 2030.
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
- PP22070
- Filed
- June 1, 2010
- Granted
- August 9, 2011
- Expires
- June 1, 2030
- Assignee
- CHALLET JEAN-PIERRE
- Inventor
- CHALLET JEAN-PIERRE
Abstract
A new cultivar of Hydrangea macrophylla subsp. serrata named ‘Santiago’ that is characterized by its compact, well-branched and rounded plant habit, its lace-cap flowers that are pink in color and turning red in color at the end of summer, its double sterile flowers, its prolific and reblooming flowering habit, its inflorescences that are present on axillary branches as well as terminal branches, its dark green foliage that turns red in autumn and resistant to sun scorch, its vigorous growth habit, and its unique combination of flowers and foliage that turn red at the end of the season.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct cultivar of Hydrangea plant named ‘Santiago’ substantially as herein illustrated and described.
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