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US Plant Patent PP32244

Peppermint Mocha

Lagerstroemia plant named ‘Peppermint Mocha’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 15, 2040.

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 PP32244, the photograph of Peppermint Mocha printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP32244, 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
PP32244
Filed
January 15, 2020
Granted
September 29, 2020
Expires
January 15, 2040
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct Crape Myrtle plant named Lagerstroemia ‘Peppermint Mocha’ has a dense, broadly-spreading, mounded habit, that is ground hardy to at least USDA zone 6, has glossy, dark-green foliage that have a medium wine-colored blush when young. The rosy-pink flowers on dense reddish stems cover the shrub. 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, Lagerstroemia plant named ‘Peppermint Mocha’ essentially as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP32244 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.