US Plant Patent PP6320
Daybreak
Dogwood tree "Daybreak"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 28, 2006. 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
- PP6320
- Filed
- October 28, 1986
- Granted
- October 4, 1988
- Expires
- October 28, 2006
- Assignee
- COMMERCIAL NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- NICHOLSON HUBERT A
Abstract
A white flowering Dogwood having distinct olive green leaves with a yellow white margin and fall foliage of distinct color which is borne on an unusually vigorous tree that is more resistant to anthracnose than other variegated leaf dogwood trees.
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 Dogwood Tree, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of an irregular yellow white margin on olive green leaves and fall color of very deep red with a margin of strong red, being stronger growing and more resistant to anthracnose disease than other variegated dogwoods which have been observed growing in the same area under similar growing conditions, being a very vigorous grower and more vigorous than "Welchii" or "Rainbow".
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6320 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.