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US Plant Patent PP32973

Lava Java

Lagerstroemia plant named ‘Lava Java’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 24, 2039.

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 PP32973, the photograph of Lava Java printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP32973, 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
PP32973
Filed
January 24, 2019
Granted
April 13, 2021
Expires
January 24, 2039
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct crape myrtle plant named Lagerstroemia ‘Lava Java’ has a dense, broadly-spreading, mounded habit, is ground hardy to at least USDA zone 6, has glossy, dark-green foliage with faint marginal wine blush that emerge deep mahogany-colored. The flowers cover the shrub with magenta-rose from shiny reddish buds. 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.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

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

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP32973 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.