US Patent Issued to BAILEY NURSERIES on May 12 for "Hydrangea plant named 'BAICZ10'" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. PP37,420, issued on May 12, was assigned to BAILEY NURSERIES INC (Newport, Minn.).

"Hydrangea plant named 'BAICZ10'" was invented by David Charles Zlesak (River Falls, Wis.) and Gail Katherine Soens (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new cultivar of Hydrangea arborescens plant named 'BAICZ10' that is characterized by its strong branches that resist lodging, its symmetrical and dense plant habit, its mophead medium-sized inflorescences with medium-sized sterile flowers, its inflorescences borne around the overall perimeter of the plant, its bright and vibrant rosy-pink sterile sepal color upon opening with sepal color transitio...