US Plant Patent PP10678
Green Billow
Ilex glabra plant named `Green Billow`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 16, 2017. 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
- PP10678
- Filed
- June 16, 1997
- Granted
- November 10, 1998
- Expires
- June 16, 2017
- Assignee
- GRIFFITH PROPAGATION NURSERY
- Inventor
- GRIFFITH MARK P
Abstract
A distinctive cultivar of Inkberry, Ilex glabra, plant named `Green Billow`, characterized by its compact, mounded, broadly-spreading habit; branches that are finely-textured due to very freely and horizontal branching and closely-spaced leaves which produce a dense, and not open, plant habit; good retention of lower foliage; small, glossy dark green summer foliage and burnished grayed-purple winter foliage; small cream-white flowers that form blackish drupes; and wide adaptability, suitable for wet and moist soils and hardiness zones 4 to 9.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct Inkberry, Ilex glabra plant named `Green Billow`, as illustrated and described.
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