US Plant Patent PP11624
Best Red
Mandevilla plant named `Best Red`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 19, 2018. 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
- PP11624
- Filed
- October 19, 1998
- Granted
- November 7, 2000
- Expires
- October 19, 2018
- Assignee
- GEM ORNAMENTALS INC
- Inventor
- HENNY RICHARD J
Abstract
A new variety of a Mandevilla plant is characterized by bright red funnelform to trumpet-shaped bright red flowers with slightly diamond-shaped corolla lobes opening deep pink and darkening to red within one to two days after anthesis and remaining on the plant an additional three to four days, and elliptical, ovate-shaped, leathery, dark green and evergreen leaves.
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 variety of Mandevilla plant substantially shown and described, characterized by bright red flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11624 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.