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US Plant Patent PP29911

Fashionably Early Flamingo

Phlox plant named ‘Fashionably Early Flamingo’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends February 7, 2037.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 1, 2036. This patent earned 68 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP29911, the photograph of Fashionably Early Flamingo printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP29911, 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
PP29911
Filed
December 1, 2016
Granted
November 27, 2018
Expires
February 7, 2037
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and unique cultivar of garden phlox named Phlox ‘Fashionably Early Flamingo’ multi-stemmed, dense, slowly-spreading habit with bright-green, glossy, lanceolate leaves. Flowers are sweetly-fragrant, initially light lavender-pink flower faces becoming pale lavender with light purple eye zones beginning late spring, continuing for about five weeks and repeating through mid-fall. Foliage stays clean and resists mildew.

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 hybrid phlox plant named Phlox ‘Fashionably Early Crystal’, as herein described and illustrated, especially suitable as a potted plant, for the garden, for attracting hummingbirds and butterflies, and for cut flower arrangements.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP29911 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.