US Plant Patent PP10733
Creeklin'
Rhaphiolepis indica plant named `Creeklin'`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 16, 2017. 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP10733
- Filed
- June 16, 1997
- Granted
- December 22, 1998
- Expires
- June 16, 2017
- Assignee
- TURKEY CREEK FARMS INC
- Inventor
- NOWLIN JEFF
Abstract
A distinctive cultivar of Hawthorne, Rhaphiolepis indica, plant named `Creeklin'`, characterized by its erect, dense, mounded and uniform plant habit; fine plant texture which allows for ease of shearing; small, oblong, mostly flat leaves with an acute apex are initially coppery and mature to a shiny dark green color; dark reddish brown young stem color; and numerous light pink flowers. The combination of light pink flowers with dark brownish red stems, coppery new growth and shiny dark green mature foliage provides the new Hawthorne a striking and unique appearance.
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 Hawthorne, Rhaphiolepis indica plant named `Creeklin'`, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10733 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.