US Plant Patent PP6215
Urbanite
Green ash named Urbanite
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 17, 2006. 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
- PP6215
- Filed
- January 17, 1986
- Granted
- July 5, 1988
- Expires
- January 17, 2006
- Inventor
- WANDELL WILLET N
Abstract
A new and distinctive variety of Fraxinus pennsylvanica lanceolata having shorter internodes, usually less than four inches long on first year stems, tighter crown being pyramidal symmetrical that maintains its shape, by leaflets of dark green above and silvery underneath, by a thicker bark on the trunk and by being disease and insect resistant.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and unique variety of green ash or Fraxinus pennsylvanica lanceolata variety of pennsylvanica named Urbanite substantially described and illustrated herein characterized in that it differs from other varieties of the same species by the unique combination of shorter internodes, usually less than four inches long on first year stems, by the tighter, pyramidal symmetrical crown that maintains its shape, by the consistent color of the leaflets that are lustrous dark green above and silvery below, by the thicker bark on the trunk that makes young plants less susceptible to sun scalding, and by its apparent disease and insect resistance.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6215 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.