US Plant Patent PP6305
Sunset
Dogwood tree "Sunset"
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
- PP6305
- Filed
- October 28, 1986
- Granted
- September 27, 1988
- Expires
- October 28, 2006
- Assignee
- COMMERCIAL NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- NICHOLSON HUBERT A
Abstract
There is disclosed a variegated leaved red flowering Dogwood tree having purplish red blooms with distinct pinkish-red tipped new growth, olive green and yellow summer foliage with colorful fall foliage ranging from pink through red to purple.
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 very vigorous growth under good growing conditions, less susceptibility to anthracnose disease than other pink flowering Dogwood, strong purplish red bracts, distinct variegated foliage from the new growth tips of pinkish-red to those of early fall when the yellow in the leaves begins to turn pinkish to red, becoming darker red as fall advances, and the red bloom distinguishing the same from other known variegated Dogwood trees.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6305 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.