US Plant Patent PP7207

Stellar Pink

Dogwood tree -- `Stellar Pink`

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: PP7207
Filed: October 26, 1988
Granted: March 27, 1990
Expires: October 26, 2008

Abstract

An interspecific hybrid of Cornus kousa and Cornus florida, which is a large bracted, vigorous, highly floriferous, flowering tree, most nearly like its parent C. kousa, which plant is upright rather than low and spreading as in C. florida, the instant plant being more fully branched and spreading as compared with C. kousa, with a period of floral display that is intermediate to C. kousa and C. florida, exhibiting attractive pink bracts unlike those of any other hybrid of C. kousa×C. florida.

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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 similar to its seed parent C. kousa in its upright habit but more spreading and fully branched as a young plant, producing floral bracts of a pinkish coloration, and intermediate to the two parent species in regard to characteristics of the overwintering flower buds and time of flowering, this hybrid being highly sterile, and resistant to disease and insects.

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