US Plant Patent PP7652
Ilex plant-Mesgolg variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 3, 2010. 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
- PP7652
- Filed
- April 3, 1990
- Granted
- September 17, 1991
- Expires
- April 3, 2010
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Ilex×meserveae is provided which originated by crossing Ilex aquifolium `Fructa Lutea`×Ilex rugosa. The new variety possesses attractive deep green foliage having a glossy upper surface, exhibits a dense branching pyramidal growth habit, and forms in abundance berries which when mature exhibit an attractive lemon-yellow coloration. Pistillate flowers are formed in abundance in the springtime and good tolerance to cold is exhibited in the wintertime. The new variety is particularly well suited for growing as a specimen plant which during the winter displays a striking contrast of bright yellow berries surrounded by a background of deep green foliage.
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×meserveae, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of: (a) a vigorous densely branched growth habit which assumes a pyramidal configuration, (b) bears deep green foliage having a very glossy upper surface, (c) bears pistillate flowers in abundance mostly during the first half of May when grown in Southern Pennsylvania, (d) forms in profusion berries which when mature exhibit an attractive lemon-yellow coloration, and (e) exhibits a cold tolerance substantially the same as that of Ilex×meserveae Blue Princess (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,675).
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7652 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.