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US Plant Patent PP31185

Hot and Cold

Kniphofia plant named ‘Hot and Cold’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 5, 2038.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP31185, the photograph of Hot and Cold printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP31185, 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
PP31185
Filed
November 5, 2018
Granted
December 3, 2019
Expires
November 5, 2038
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Red Hot Poker plant named Kniphofia ‘Hot and Cold’ with long, gracefully-arching, strap-like, keeled, glaucous, gray-green foliage and numerous scapes beginning in late spring and repeating for six weeks. Habit is densely growing, winter-hardy, tolerant of lodging, heat, deer and rabbits. Numerous scapes of vivid reddish buds and contrasting open flowers of pale greenish-yellow on tall scapes beginning in late spring and repeating repeating for six weeks. The new plant is useful for landscaping as a specimen, en masse, or as a long-lasting cut flower.

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 cultivar of Red Hot Poker plant named Kniphofia ‘Hot and Cold’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP31185 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.