US Plant Patent PP11741
Huo Yen
Ilex hybrid variety named ‘Huo Yen’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 23, 2018. 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
- PP11741
- Filed
- November 23, 1998
- Granted
- January 16, 2001
- Expires
- November 23, 2018
- Inventor
- POUNDERS JR CECIL T
Abstract
Huo Yen is a unique new evergreen holly which combines desirable landscape and production traits from two species, Ilex opaca and Ilex cassine , in a manner which particularly distinguished it from all other forms of Ilex. Plants bear copious annual crops of vibrant red berries (mature color) without loss of foliage color, have distinctive lustrous fine textured lanceolate leaves, produce an erect narrow symmetrical pyramidal crown without extensive shearing, and have the environmental tolerances of the Ilex opaca parent. Huo Yen is being marketed under the Dixie Flame Holly trademark.
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 Ilex×attenuata plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of: (a) annual abundant crops of fruit which matures to vibrant red in early fall then persisting until spring, (b) evergreen, fine textured leaves which retain lustrous green coloration even when plant is heavily berried, (c) produces an erect narrow symmetrical pyramidal crown without extensive shearing, and (d) environmental tolerance equivalent to I. opaca.
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