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US Plant Patent PP36636

Hope and a Prayer

Mangave plant named ‘Hope and a Prayer’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends March 25, 2044.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 23, 2044. This patent earned 31 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP36636, the photograph of Hope and a Prayer printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP36636, 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
PP36636
Filed
February 23, 2024
Granted
April 29, 2025
Expires
March 25, 2044
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Hope and a Prayer’ characterized by habit that is a rounded mounded and becomes globose to pyriform-shaped with maturity. The numerous lanceolate leaves are dark, olive-green in the center and yellowish to chartreuse on the margin with small, widely-spaced, marginal teeth and apical mucro becoming wine-colored. Leaves develop small reddish-purple spots on adaxial and abaxial sides with high ultraviolet exposure. The new plant is suitable as a potted houseplant plant, as a container plant for the patio or garden and for the garden or planted in the landscape.

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 cultivar of ornamental X Mangave plant named ‘Hope and a Prayer’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP36636 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.