US Plant Patent PP6127
Moonshadow
Euonymus plant named Moonshadow
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 25, 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
- PP6127
- Filed
- February 25, 1986
- Granted
- March 15, 1988
- Expires
- February 25, 2006
- Assignee
- DUGAN NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- DUGAN THOMAS F
Abstract
The new cultivar Moonshadow is especially characterized by its broadleaf evergreen foliage which has pronounced yellow centers that cover the entire leaf except for narrow dark green margins, with the leaves inside the plant being of the same variegated color as the stem tips, thereby giving the plant as a whole a distinctive and striking light yellow appearance, accented delicately by the narrow green curled leaf margins.
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 Euonymus plant known by the cultivar name Moonshadow, as illustrated and described, and characterized particularly as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of low, rounded, compact and shapely habit of growth; good winter hardiness, and thick broadleaf evergreen foliage having pronounced large yellow centers with very thin dark green margins of irregular depth, with the leaves inside the plant being of the same variegated color as the stem tips, thereby giving the plant as a whole a distinctive and striking light yellow spotted appearance, with curly leaf texture.
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