US Plant Patent PP8472
Conti
Abelia×grandiflora variety named `Conti`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 1, 2012. 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP8472
- Filed
- May 1, 1992
- Granted
- November 23, 1993
- Expires
- May 1, 2012
- Assignee
- FLOWERWOOD NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- GWALTNEY JAMES T
Abstract
The new plant is readily distinguishable from other Abelai×grandiflora as the Abelia described herein does not have the same characteristics as other Abelias in growth habit, or foliage color as described in horticultural literature.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and unique variety of Abelia×grandiflora named Abelia×grandiflora `Conti` as herein shown and described, is characterized by its very spreading growth habit, its unique creamy variegation of foliage and winter coloration. The dense, compact, spreading growth habit will fill numerous landscape needs for ground covering, variegation coloration, drought tolerance, groupings and mass plantings, requiring less maintenance, especially pruning, than other species, and freedom from disease and insects with a wide soil tolerance.
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