US Plant Patent PP5221
Shangri-la
Ginkgo tree named Shangri-la
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 17, 2001. 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
- PP5221
- Filed
- March 18, 1981
- Granted
- April 17, 1984
- Expires
- April 17, 2001
- Inventor
- WANDELL WILLET N
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of cultivar of Ginkgo tree of the Ginkgo biloba type characterized by a more compact habit of growth and a more desirable arrangement of branches growing at a favorable angle from the trunk and the crown having a full, dense, moderate spread.
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 Ginkgo biloba, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its rapid, compact growth habit growing 55 feet in height with a 40 foot branch spread in 17 years, dense full crown caused by in addition to the basic scaffold, the supplementary or secondary branches occurring throughout the center of the crown giving the tree crown a heavy, full appearance, straight trunk, ease of propagation and freedom from production of foul smelling fruit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5221 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.