US Plant Patent PP7204
Galaxy
Dogwood tree--`Galaxy`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 26, 2008. 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
- PP7204
- Filed
- October 26, 1988
- Granted
- March 27, 1990
- Expires
- October 26, 2008
Abstract
An interspecific F 1 hybrid of the species Cornus kousa and Cornus florida exhibiting large overlapping white bracts and floriferous in a period from about May 18 to about June 3, the floral display ending about the time plants of C. kousa begin their floral display, plants of this cultivar being similar to its seed parent, C. kousa, as regards its upright vase shaped habit when youngbut intermediate plants of the two parent species in the nature of the overwintering flower budds, together with freedom from infestation by dogwood borer and "dogwood decline".
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 cultivar of dogwood tree, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of its vigor and highly floriferous, small, flowering form and similar to its seed parent C. kousa as to its upright, vase-shaped habit when young but intermediate to plants of both parent species C. kousa and C. florida in the intermediate nature of the overwintering flower buds and the period of floral display, resistance to infestation by dogwood borer and does not exhibit "dogwood decline".
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