US Plant Patent PP9104
Courtasol
Forsythia plant -- Courtasol variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 11, 2014. 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
- PP9104
- Filed
- April 11, 1994
- Granted
- April 11, 1995
- Expires
- April 11, 2014
- Assignee
- AGRI OBTENTIONS S A
- Inventor
- CADIC M ALAIN
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Forsythia plant named Courtasol is provided. The new variety was discovered among the open-pollination progeny growing in a cultivated area of a fertile mutant that was created by subjecting Forsythia×intermedia Spring Glory to gamma rays. Unlike its parent the new variety exhibits a distinctive low-growing, compact and spreading growth habit. Short internode lengths make possible a dense and abundant display of bright yellow blossoms in the springtime. A mature plant commonly assumes a height of approximately 0.5 meter and a width of approximately 1.2 meter. The new variety is particularly suited for growing as attractive ornamentation in the landscape.
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 Forsythia, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of: (a) the exhibition of a distinctive low-growing, compact and spreading growth habit, and (b) the formation of a dense and abundant display of attractive bright yellow flowers that is influenced by the short internode lengths.
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