TODAY’S PATENT – PLANT NAMED “CANDY CRUSH”

The Plant named “Candy Crush” was invented by Hans A. Hansen on December 8, 2020 bearing patent number USPP32587P2.

The present invention relates to the new and distinct hardy, herbaceous, Hibiscus plant, Hibiscus ‘Candy Crush’ hybridized under direction of the inventor. Hibiscus ‘Candy Crush’ was first asexually propagated in late summer of 2017 by sterile shoot-tip tissue culture and later by shoot tip cuttings at the same nursery in Zeeland, Mich. The resultant asexually propagated plants have been found to be stable and true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.

A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘Candy Crush’ comprising an upright mounded habit of multiple, well-branched, basal stems producing flowers from the bottom to the top of the plant from late July to early September. Flowers have overlapping petals of bubblegum-pink with slightly darker veins and dark red shiny eye with leading margin folded underneath giving flowers extra strength and resistance to wind damage. The foliage is three- to five-lobed, and rich bright-green.