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US Plant Patent PP17966

Tamar Red Bicolor

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Tamar Red Bicolor’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 17, 2026. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17966, the photograph of Tamar Red Bicolor printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17966, 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
PP17966
Filed
February 17, 2006
Granted
August 28, 2007
Expires
February 17, 2026
Assignee
FIDES BV
Inventor
MIEDEMA-JORNA ANITA

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Tamar Red Bicolor’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading and uniformly mounded plant growth habit; freely branching and freely flowering habit; dark green-colored foliage; and large rounded light red and pink bi-colored flowers.

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

1. A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Tamar Red Bicolor’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17966 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.