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US Plant Patent PP37241

Botfire

Cornus plant named ‘Botfire’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 25, 2045.

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
PP37241
Filed
January 25, 2025
Granted
February 3, 2026
Expires
January 25, 2045
Inventor
FLANDERS BOBBY F

Abstract

A new cultivar of Cornus plant named ‘Botfire’ that is characterized by its foliage that is tinged red to bronze with the color persistent throughout fall, its flowers with dark pink to red colored flower bracts, its sturdy trunk, and its viability after chip budding onto Cornus kousa rootstock.

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 cultivar of Cornus plant named ‘Botfire’ as herein illustrated and described.

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