Cool Beans

Cool Beans

Lagerstroemia plant named ‘Cool Beans’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 15, 2037.

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 PP29940, the photograph of Cool Beans printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP29940, 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.

Abstract

The new and distinct crape myrtle plant named Lagerstroemia ‘Cool Beans’ has a dense, short, compact, broadly rounded habit, is ground hardy to at least USDA zone 6, has deep green foliage edged in rosy red. The flowers arise from shiny, rosy-red buds, are lightly fragrant, large, cover the shrub with their pinkish color. The new plant resists leaf spot and powdery mildew and is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a container plant.

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It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of crape myrtle plant named Lagerstroemia ‘Cool Beans’ essentially as herein illustrated and described.

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