US Plant Patent PP18695

Gradored

Pelargonium plant named ‘Gradored’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 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.

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The record

Patent number: PP18695
Filed: August 17, 2006
Granted: April 1, 2008
Expires: August 17, 2026
Assignee: FLORFIS AG
Inventor: UTECHT ANGELIKA

Abstract

A new cultivar of pelargonium particularly characterized by having red to orange-red, double and stellar-type flowers, small to medium-sized, tight and semi-spherically shaped umbels on long peduncles, medium-green, fan-shaped foliage with distinct zonation, a vigorous growth habit, a medium to tall, rounded, well-branched, moderately tight plant habit, and a mid-season flowering response, is disclosed.

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 pelargonium plant as shown and described herein.

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