US Plant Patent PP8873
Limsi
Ilex aquifolium -- Limsi cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 22, 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
- PP8873
- Filed
- October 22, 1993
- Granted
- August 30, 1994
- Expires
- October 22, 2013
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- BLANKEN ARIE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Ilex aquifolium which originated as a chance seedling in a cultivated area is provided. The new variety is well-suited for growing as attractive ornamentation in the landscape where it exhibits a naturally pyramidal upright growth habit that well retains such configuration following pruning. The dark green leaves exhibit a good luster on upper surface, are somewhat variable in shape, and the spines present thereon tend not to catch the clothing. Highly visible bright red berries are formed in abundance. Additionally, excellent cold tolerance is exhibited.
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 female Ilex aquifolium cultivar possessing the following characteristics: (a) forms an attractive densely-formed naturally pyramidal upright evergreen shrub or small tree with a vigorous head branch that well retains such pyramidal configuration following pruning, (b) forms dark green leaves of variable shape having a good luster on the upper surface and which bear spines that lack a propensity to catch clothing, (c) forms pistillate flowers primarily during the first half of May when grown in southeastern Pennsylvania, (d) forms in abundance highly-visible bright red berries, and (e) exhibits a cold tolerance that substantially exceeds that of the Pyramidalis and J. C. Van Tol cultivars of Ilex aquifolium; substantially as herein shown and described.
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