US Plant Patent PP4458
Snow Queen
Hydrangea quercifolia
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 18, 1998. 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
- PP4458
- Filed
- October 18, 1978
- Granted
- September 4, 1979
- Expires
- October 18, 1998
- Assignee
- TREESEARCH
- Inventor
- FLEMER III WILLIAM
Abstract
There is disclosed an Hydrangea quercifolia plant, having pure white color blooms with perfect and abundant sterile florets on the same panicle, the habit being low and compact, up to one and one-half meters in height with spreading compact almost hemispherical outline, the non-pendant blooms being borne on strong erect stems.
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 Hydrangea quercifolia plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of very showy, white blooms, having abundant sterile florets usually about fifty to sixty in number, the blooms borne on strong, erect stems in upright non-pendant position, to a height of about one and one half meters, the low compact bush being generally hemispherical in overall appearance.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4458 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.