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US Plant Patent PP31308

Kung Fuchsia

Phlox plant named ‘Kung Fuchsia’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends February 11, 2039.

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 PP31308, the photograph of Kung Fuchsia printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP31308, 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
PP31308
Filed
February 11, 2019
Granted
December 31, 2019
Expires
February 11, 2039
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and unique cultivar of garden phlox named Phlox ‘Kung Fuchsia’ multi-stemmed, short, upright, slowly-spreading habit with clean green, glossy, lanceolate leaves with exceptional powdery mildew resistance. Foliage is thick with stiff stocky stems. Sweetly fragrant flowers of bright fuchsia faces with light pink eye zones markings are produced on multiple branched peduncles and cover the top of the plant beginning early summer about two weeks prior typical Phlox paniculata cultivars. ‘Kung Fuchsia’ is especially suitable as a potted plant, for the garden, for attracting hummingbirds and butterflies, and for cut flower arrangements.

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 ‘Kung Fuchsia’, as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP31308 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.