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US Plant Patent PP17483

Sweet Caroline Red

Ornamental sweetpotato plant named ‘Sweet Caroline Red’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 28, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 28, 2024. This patent earned 91 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17483, the photograph of Sweet Caroline Red printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17483, 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
PP17483
Filed
September 28, 2004
Granted
March 13, 2007
Expires
December 28, 2024
Assignee
UNIV NORTH CAROLINA STATE
Inventor
PECOTA KENNETH; YENCHO G CRAIG; HANCOCK JR CHARLES NEWELL

Abstract

Ipomoea batatas ‘Sweet Caroline Red’ has very distinct coloration; new shoots are yellow-green in color and transition to a dark burgundy-red color when mature. The stems and petioles of the mature plant are also dark burgundy-red in color. The leaves are large, palmately lobed and veined. ‘Sweet Caroline Red’ has a moderately compact growth habit and is a low, mounding-to-trailing plant with an overall oval shape that is suitable for use as a ground cover or in containerized landscape settings. The plant also has excellent vigor.

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 Ipomoea batatas plant named ‘Sweet Caroline Red’, substantially as illustrated and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17483 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.