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US Plant Patent PP8887

jasminoides

Gardenia jasminoides var. Star Bright

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 8, 2013. 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
PP8887
Filed
November 8, 1993
Granted
September 13, 1994
Expires
November 8, 2013
Assignee
COOK ALLYN
Inventor
COOK ALLYN A

Abstract

A new and novel seedling Gardenia jasminoides plant, named `Star Bright` is disclosed and is particularly characterized by its large, single flowers of pure white petal color. Petals have elongated claws, which are covered at their articulation with the corolla tube, by normally strongly reflexed golden-yellow, elongated anthers which assume an adpressed position over the basal petal connections. Petals and anthers are inferior to the lobed stigma which is of a slightly lighter color than that of the anthers. The classic, simple, single white flowers stand out conspicuously over the lush, deep green leaves. The plant is a multi-stemmed rounded shrub of medium canopy density which attains a height and span of two or more meters when growing under conditions to which it is adapted.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and novel Gardenia plant (Gardenia jasminoides) as described and illustrated, named `Star Bright`.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8887 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.