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US Plant Patent PP8779

Condeaux

Ilex vomitoria variety named `Condeaux`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 2, 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
PP8779
Filed
August 2, 1993
Granted
June 14, 1994
Expires
August 2, 2013
Inventor
PITTMAN JERRY B

Abstract

The new plant is readily distinguishable from other Ilex vomtoria as the Ilex described herein does not have the same characteristics as other Ilex in growth habit, or foliage color as described in horticultural literature.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and unique variety of Ilex vomitoria named Ilex vomitoria `Condeaux` as herein shown and described, is characterized by its very low growth habit and unique juvenile foliage coloration, the dense, compact, mounding growth habit will fill numerous landscape needs for ground covering, groupings and mass plantings, foundation plantings, unusual foliage coloration, drought tolerance, requiring less maintenance, and freedom from disease and insects with a wide soil tolerance.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8779 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.