US Plant Patent PP4300
Pink Dogwood
Dogwood tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 16, 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
- PP4300
- Filed
- September 16, 1977
- Granted
- September 12, 1978
- Expires
- September 16, 1997
- Inventor
- WILLS MEL
Abstract
A limb sport of Cornus florida rubra characterized by smaller, more wrinkled leaves which are variegated green and yellow, with rose colorations when immature and deep red to reddish-purple colorations in the autumn.
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 having variegated leaves with a generally centrally oriented sharply defined dark colored area surrounded by a light colored peripheral area, many of such leaves also having sharply defined patches of intermediate coloration.
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