US Plant Patent PP12790

Balazplum

Verbena plant named ‘Balazplum’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 30, 2021. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP12790, the photograph of Balazplum printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP12790, 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: PP12790
Filed: March 30, 2001
Granted: July 23, 2002
Expires: March 30, 2021
Assignee: BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor: TREES SCOTT

Abstract

A new and distinct Verbena plant named ‘Balazplum’, characterized by its purple flowers, mounded trailing habit, and deeply cleft, dark green leaves.

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 Verbena hybrida plant named Balazplum substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits purple flowers, (b) forms deeply cleft, dark green foliage, (d) exhibits a good basal branching character and (e) exhibits a upright mounded growth habit.

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