Blue Elf

Blue Elf

×Sedoro plant named ‘Blue Elf’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 19, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 14, 2034. This patent earned 66 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP27113, the photograph of Blue Elf printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP27113, 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.

Abstract

A new cultivar of × Sedoro plant named ‘Blue Elf’ characterized by its compact, non-flopping, mound-forming, low-growing groundcover plant habit, its compact and dense clusters of flowers that cover almost the entire plant surface (95%) in late summer, its numerous clusters of flowers that are hot pink in color in late summer, its foliage that is powder-blue in color during spring and early summer and becoming lightly suffused with rose-pink in mid-summer to fall, its heavy self-branching without pinching from early spring through mid-summer, its numerous lateral branches that elongate away from the central stem, and its inflorescences that have a strong sweet fragrance.

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It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of × Sedoro plant named ‘Blue Elf’ as described and illustrated herein.

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