US Plant Patent PP7852
FX-10
`FX-10`, a variety of St. Augustinegrass
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 28, 2010. 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
- PP7852
- Filed
- March 28, 1990
- Granted
- April 7, 1992
- Expires
- March 28, 2010
Abstract
A perennial, vegetatively propagated St. Augustinegrass genotype having resistance to the PDP southern chinch bug, resistance to seasonal drought, moderate resistance to gray leaf spot disease, sparse hairs on the adaxial surfaces of the young leaf blades, and bluish colored leaves.
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 St. Augustinegrass, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized by its distinctive combination of inflorescence and vegetative characteristics, its superior resistance to seasonal drought when grown in a humid region with shallow subsurface soil moisture, its moderate resistance to gray leaf spot disease, its bluish colored foliage, and its resistance to the PDP southern chinch bug.
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