US Plant Patent PP21287
Pink Frost
Illicium plant named ‘Pink Frost’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends June 15, 2029.
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
- PP21287
- Filed
- June 15, 2009
- Granted
- September 14, 2010
- Expires
- June 15, 2029
- Assignee
- PLANT INTRODUCTIONS INC
- Inventor
- HARP MICKEY
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Illicium plant named ‘Pink Frost’, characterized by its compact, rounded growth habit, medium green foliage with cream-white marginal variegation, pink-red petioles, red flowers, and pink to red foliage in winter.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct Illicium plant named ‘Pink Frost’, as illustrated and described herein.
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