US Plant Patent PP17409
CORAL SUN
Koelreuteria plant named ‘CORAL SUN’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 18, 2025. 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
- PP17409
- Filed
- August 18, 2005
- Granted
- February 13, 2007
- Expires
- August 18, 2025
- Assignee
- KOLSTER HENNY
- Inventor
- KOLSTER HENNY
Abstract
A new cultivar of Koelreuteria named ‘CORAL SUN’ that is characterized by emerging and persistent orange red spring foliage, mid-green summer foliage, bright red petioles at all times, and the typical golden yellow fall foliage for the species. In combination these traits set ‘CORAL SUN’ apart from all other existing varieties of Koelreuteria known to the inventor.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of Koelreuteria plant named ‘CORAL SUN’ as described and illustrated.
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