US Plant Patent PP8500
Spring Grove
Dogwood tree "Spring Grove"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 8, 2011. 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
- PP8500
- Filed
- October 8, 1991
- Granted
- December 14, 1993
- Expires
- October 8, 2011
- Assignee
- SPRING GROVE CEMETERY AND ARBO
- Inventor
- SMITH THOMAS L
Abstract
A white flowering dogwood tree showing better than usual cold and heat tolerance as well as bearing abundant multiple terminal floral bracts. This dogwood produces an unusual abundance of flowers as well as fruit, and exhibits a more pronounced broader than tall habit. There has been no appearance of anthracnose on this distinct variety of Cornus florida.
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 combination of its hardiness and extremely floriferous habit, vigorous growth rate, pronounced broader than tall habit, and resistance to Anthracnose disease.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8500 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.