Hibiscus Patents (Class PLT/257)
  • Publication number: 20110265229
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-ANG’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, sturdy, upright growth, and large flowers having a large red eye zone which is sharply margined against a violet zone which extends to the petal margins, with suffusion of purple pink on the underlapping edge of each petal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110265228
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-MNLS’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, extremely upright, sturdy growth, and large flowers having a large dark red eye extending about 40 percent of the way into the petal, and edged in scarlet red, which is sharply margined against a medium pink zone which extends to the petal margin, which may be marked with suffusions of ivory and blush pink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110265230
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-NPK’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright, tall, growth habit, which can be floppy if not staked, appropriate for container production and culture freely flowering habit, and double flower characterized by a small dark red eye zone radiating into a glossy bright pink zone which radiates to 30 percent of the petal length into a medium pink zone which may darken to rich pink at the petal's ruffled sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110258745
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-NEB’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, almost prostrate, sturdy habit, and large flowers having a brown-orange center, shading to a glossy light brown-orange zone which radiates, via petal veins, into a petal of brown coral orange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110258746
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-CNRY’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, prostrate growth, and large flowers having a small, bright red eye zone which radiates into a thin zone of ivory extending approximately 20 percent into the petal, which radiates into a zone of pineapple yellow which extends to the petal margins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110252524
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-MMS’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, extensively upright, sturdy growth, and large flowers having a dark red eye which radiates between the petal veins to approximately 30 percent of the petal length, into a rich pink zone traversed by the petal veins in a medium pink, the rich pink zone shading to blush pink at the petal margin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110252518
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-LVS’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright growth, and large flowers having non-glossy petals; uniformly colored a medium red.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110252526
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-CJSS’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, sturdy, upright growth, and large flowers having a dark red eye radiating for 30 percent of the petal length in to a zone of bright orange with yellow veins which shades to a light orange toward the petal margin, which is edged in yellow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110252519
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-RPL’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright growth, and large flowers having a large glossy red eye, with each petal having a conspicuous red-speckled region of white on the underlapping portion. The eye radiates into a zone of dull red which extends to the edge of the petal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110252517
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-VOI’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright growth, and large flowers having a central lavender zone shading to a grey blue zone to 60 percent of the petal length, edged with a wide zone of medium pink, which shades to light orange at the petal margin. Prominent white veins radiate nearly to the petal margin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110252522
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-FXL’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, extensively upright, sturdy growth, and large flowers having a rib of each petal which is currant red and which is sharply margined on the underlapping side with bright white. Pale red veins traverse a velvet-textured red zone which radiates to blush pink at the petal margins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110252523
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-MNDC’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, sturdy, upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and flowers characterized by white pistil and style, to which are attached the primary whorl of petals as well as small petaloids, petals and petaloids devoid of color for 30 percent of their length, with the remainder a pastel yellow, with marginal suffusions of yellow orange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110252516
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-GLDN’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright growth, and large flowers having a small brown-orange eye edged in a narrow band of tan which is narrowly margined in the same color as the eye. The remainder of the petal is tan with light brown-orange suffusion. Upon opening, the entire flower is suffused in bright brown-orange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110252527
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-CJS’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright growth, and large flowers having a complex bright red eye extending approximately 20 percent into the petal, sharply margined in a narrow lilac zone, followed by a narrow medium pink zone; white petal veins extend into the pineapple orange body of the petal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110252521
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-LVW’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and large double flower having a medium-sized dull red eye zone from which whitish yellow petal veins radiate into yellow petals suffused or finely speckled with bright orange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110252520
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-DXLD’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, prostrate growth, and large flowers having a medium sized dark red eye which extends about 25 percent of petal length to the edge of a variable pink zone which grades evenly from a medium pink at the overlapping edge to a light pink at the underlapping edge, with a petal margin of light orange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110252525
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-DXL’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, sturdy, very upright growth, and large flowers having a bright red eye zone extending slightly into the petal body, surrounded by a thin zone of pale lavender which radiates via the petal veins into a large zone of copper lilac having lilac petal veins. The copper lilac region shades abruptly to a coral-orange petal margin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110247112
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-CBS’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and large flowers characterized by an eye zone which abuts a zone of lavender extending to the outer edges of the petal, shading into a pink lavender at the petal margin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110247114
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-BLDS’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and flowers characterized by a large glossy red eye, radiating out between the petal veins part way through a region which is pink on the overlapping edge of the petal and which shades to apricot on the underlapping edge. The pale veins continue through the region, extending to the yellow margin of the bloom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110247110
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-QUD’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and double flower characterized by a reduced pink eye, surrounded by a pink zone which radiates along the petal veins through a lavender zone into a bright salmon zone. The salmon zone blends into a coral margin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110247109
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-HNGG’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and fully double flowers characterized by a large red-orange zone extending from the center of the flower approximately 75 percent of the way to the petal margin, with the balance of the petal a bright orange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110247111
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-EOK’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and large, double flowers having a complex eye zone with a medium-sized semi-glossy dark red center which radiates into a narrow band of violet, which radiates through a narrow band of brown orange into orange-suffused gold petals. The orange suffusion does not reach the margins of the gold petals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110247113
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-BLKD’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and a glossy, blackish red center shades into a brown-scarlet by midpetal, shading to brown orange at the petal margin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110231970
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-RRAS’, characterized by a large, glossy, dark red eye slightly radiating between pale petal veins into a large lavender pink zone. Pale petal veins radiate nearly to the edge of the zone, which shades into a pale orange margin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: Dupont Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, SR.
  • Patent number: PP22250
    Abstract: The new and distinct plant cultivar of hardy Hibiscus named ‘Party Favor’ comprising a multitude of flowers with ruffled and heavily overlapped cotton-candy pink petals and deep magenta eye, three to five-lobed maple-like foliage with purple tinting and heavily branched stems heavily with purple tinting producing a numerous flowers over at least 12 weeks during the summer and early fall until frost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin A. Hurd
  • Patent number: PP22251
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-CRW’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and very large flowers having an evenly distributed velvet red color of the upper surfaces of the petals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22300
    Abstract: The new and distinct plant cultivar of hardy Hibiscus named ‘Sultry Kiss’ comprising heavily branched purple tinted stems containing three-lobed maple-like foliage with burgundy tinting, and flowers with heavily overlapped magenta red petals and crimson red eye, over at least 12 weeks during the summer and early fall until frost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin A. Hurd
  • Patent number: PP22301
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-HDEF’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and very large flowers having a deep red eye zone, a silver lilac body and beige edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22452
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-SFFM’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and very large flowers having an even, bright yellow color throughout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22466
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-LMF’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and a large, glossy red eye which radiates between the petal veins into a narrow region of white. The remaining two thirds of the petal is a deep orange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22475
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-HNGG’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and fully double flowers characterized by a large red-orange zone extending from the center of the flower approximately 75 percent of the way to the petal margin, with the balance of the petal a bright orange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22482
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-QUD’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and double flower characterized by a reduced pink eye, surrounded by a pink zone which radiates along the petal veins through a lavender zone into a bright salmon zone. The salmon zone blends into a coral margin. With exposure to sun, the salmon zone fades to coral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22511
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-SWMP’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and very large flowers having a deep red eye zone, a silver lilac body and beige edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22512
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-CNRY’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, prostrate growth, and large flowers having a small, bright red eye zone which radiates into a thin zone of ivory extending approximately 20 percent into the petal, which radiates into a zone of pineapple yellow which extends to the petal margins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22522
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-MNLS’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, extremely upright, sturdy growth, and large flowers having a large dark red eye extending about 40 percent of the way into the petal, and edged in scarlet red, which is sharply margined against a medium pink zone which extends to the petal margin, which may be marked with suffusions of ivory and blush pink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22523
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-DLR’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and very large flowers having a deep red eye zone, a brilliant hot pink body, with faintly iridescent, light pink ribs radiating from the eye zone into the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22524
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-RPL’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright growth, and large flowers having a large glossy red eye, with each petal having a conspicuous red-speckled region of white on the underlapping portion. The eye radiates into a zone of dull red which extends to the edge of the petal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22525
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-GLDN’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright growth, and large flowers having a small brown-orange eye edged in a narrow band of tan which is narrowly margined in the same color as the eye. The remainder of the petal is tan with light brown-orange suffusion. Upon opening, the entire flower is suffused in bright brown-orange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22526
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-CBS’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and large flowers characterized by an eye zone which abuts a zone of lavender extending to the outer edges of the petal, shading into a pink lavender at the petal margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22527
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-MNDC’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, sturdy, upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and flowers characterized by white pistil and style, to which are attached the primary whorl of petals as well as small petaloids, petals and petaloids devoid of color for 30 percent of their length, with the remainder a pastel yellow, with marginal suffusions of yellow orange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22528
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-DXLD’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, prostrate growth, and large flowers having a medium sized dark red eye which extends about 25 percent of petal length to the edge of a variable pink zone which grades evenly from a medium pink at the overlapping edge to a light pink at the underlapping edge, with a petal margin of light orange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22529
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-ANG’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, sturdy, upright growth, and large flowers having a large red eye zone which is sharply margined against a violet zone which extends to the petal margins, with suffusion of purple pink on the underlapping edge of each petal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22530
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-LVW’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and large double flower having a medium-sized dull red eye zone from which whitish yellow petal veins radiate into yellow petals suffused or finely speckled with bright orange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22531
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-EOK’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and large, double flowers having a complex eye zone with a medium-sized semi-glossy dark red center which radiates into a narrow band of violet, which radiates through a narrow band of brown orange into orange-suffused gold petals. The orange suffusion does not reach the margins of the gold petals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22532
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-CJSS’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, sturdy, upright growth, and large flowers having a dark red eye radiating for 30 percent of the petal length in to a zone of bright orange with yellow veins which shades to a light orange toward the petal margin, which is edged in yellow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22533
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-NEB’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, almost prostrate, sturdy habit, and large flowers having a brown-orange center, shading to a glossy light brown-orange zone which radiates, via petal veins, into a petal of brown coral orange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22534
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-MMS’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, extensively upright, sturdy growth, and large flowers having a dark red eye which radiates between the petal veins to approximately 30 percent of the petal length, into a rich pink zone traversed by the petal veins in a medium pink, the rich pink zone shading to blush pink at the petal margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22546
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-VOI’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright growth, and large flowers having a central lavender zone shading to a grey blue zone to 60 percent of the petal length, edged with a wide zone of medium pink, which shades to light orange at the petal margin. Prominent white veins radiate nearly to the petal margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22549
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-DXL’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, sturdy, very upright growth, and large flowers having a bright red eye zone extending slightly into the petal body, surrounded by a thin zone of pale lavender which radiates via the petal veins into a large zone of copper lilac having lilac petal veins. The copper lilac region shades abruptly to a coral-orange petal margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.
  • Patent number: PP22551
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-BLDS’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and flowers characterized by a large glossy red eye, radiating out between the petal veins part way through a region which is pink on the overlapping edge of the petal and which shades to apricot on the underlapping edge. The pale veins continue through the region, extending to the yellow margin of the bloom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Inventor: Robert J. Dupont, Sr.