US Plant Patent PP11055
Princeton Gold
Forsythia hybrid plant named `Princeton Gold`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 22, 2017. 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
- PP11055
- Filed
- August 22, 1997
- Granted
- September 7, 1999
- Expires
- August 22, 2017
- Assignee
- TREESEARCH
- Inventor
- FLEMER III WILLIAM
Abstract
A new and distinct Forsythia variety characterized by the very large size of the flowers which have a rich golden color and with much broader petals than any other Forysthia variety known to me. The flowers are very dense on the twigs so that the shrub is a solid mass of gold when in bloom. It forms a dense, rounded shrub, broader than tall. The flower buds survive cold winter in USDA hardiness zone 5-A when the flower buds of Forsythia intermedia varieties have been killed.
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 Forsythia plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its very large flowers of a rich golden color with broad petals forming a dense, rounded shrub, broader than tall, and by its hardy flower buds able to survive cold winter in USDA hardiness zone 5.
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