US Plant Patent PP15243
Monrue
Buxus plant named ‘Monrue’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 1, 2023. 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
- PP15243
- Filed
- December 1, 2003
- Granted
- October 19, 2004
- Expires
- December 1, 2023
- Assignee
- MONROVIA NURSERY CO
- Inventor
- RUSOW GREG
Abstract
A new and distinct Buxus plant named ‘Monrue’, characterized by its upright and columnar plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit and short internodes; dense and bushy plant form; dark green foliage color that is retained throughout the year; and relative resistance to root rot pathogens common to Buxus .
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct Buxus plant named ‘Monrue’, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15243 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.