US Plant Patent PP4905
Hacput
Rhododendron plant--Hacput variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 25, 2000. 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
- PP4905
- Filed
- June 25, 1980
- Granted
- October 26, 1982
- Expires
- June 25, 2000
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- HACHMANN JOHANNES
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Rhododendron russatum which originated as a chance seedling in a cultivated area is provided. The new variety possesses flowers which are of a highly attractive violet-blue color, and exhibits good tolerance to extremes in temperature.
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 variety of Rhododendron russatum, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of: (a) a bushy, well-branched and vigorous growth habit, (b) flowers of striking violet-blue color, (c) improved hardiness compared to the russatum species, and (d) improved tolerance to extremes of both cold and heat when compared to the Blue Tit and Blue Diamond varieties and varieties of the impeditum species.
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