US Patent Issued to Walters Gardens on Sept. 1 for "Hibiscus plant named 'Coconut Cream'" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. PP37,657, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Walters Gardens Inc. (Zeeland, Mich.).

"Hibiscus plant named 'Coconut Cream'" was invented by Hans A. Hansen (Zeeland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial Hibiscus plant named 'Coconut Cream' comprising an upright, mounded habit of multiple, well-branched, basal stems producing flowers from late July to mid-September. Flowers have overlapping, heavily-rippled petals opening light yellow and becoming creamy-yellow with slightly darker veins and dark, red, shiny eye. The flower buds are greenish-yellow and the petals slightly open ...