US Plant Patent PP4367
Steward
American holly--Steward's Silver Crown variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 31, 1997. 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
- PP4367
- Filed
- January 31, 1977
- Granted
- January 16, 1979
- Expires
- January 31, 1997
- Inventor
- STEWARD JR T LINWOOD
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of American Holly plant, Ilex opaca, is provided having variegated leaves (as described). The new variety occurred as a mutation on a portion of a seven year old female American Holly plant growing at Pitman, N.J. The upper side of the newly formed leaves exhibits an off-white border having a pinkish cast and two-toned mottled dark and light green center disc portion. The pinkish cast of the leaf border tends to disappear as the leaves mature. The new variety abundantly forms red berries.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of American Holly (Ilex opaca) resulting as a mutation on a portion of chance seedling growing in a cultivated area exhibiting (a) variegated newly formed leaves having an upper side which possesses an off-white border with a pinkish cast and a two-toned mottled dark and light green center portion, and (b) the propensity abundantly to form red berries, substantially as shown and described.
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