US Plant Patent PP9174
Loree Dawn
Juniper plant--`Loree Dawn` variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 30, 2014. 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
- PP9174
- Filed
- August 30, 1994
- Granted
- June 20, 1995
- Expires
- August 30, 2014
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- FREDERICK DONALD G; FREDERICK ADA W
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Juniperus chinensis plant was discovered as a limb mutation among plants of the `Pfitzeriana Aurea` variety. The new variety is slower growing than its parent and exhibits a more compact and more prostrate growth habit than `Pfitzeriana Aurea`. The new variety exhibits very fine, cascading foliage and a brilliant gold color that is speckled throughout the plant (as illustrated). The new variety because of its distinct appearance is particularly suited for use as a foundation planting, as a landscape specimen, or as a decorative mass planting. The golden foliage coloration commonly persists throughout the summer and winter months whereas other golden junipers commonly assume a brownish-green coloration during the winter months. Slow growing and fine, lacy-textured plants requiring very little maintenance are provided which impart a vivid coloration to the landscape throughout the year.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Juniperus chinensis substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) grows more slowly than `Pfitzeriana Aurea`, (b) exhibits an attractive, fine and lacy-textured brilliant gold foliage that is deeper and more persistent than that of `Pfitzeriana Aurea`, and (c) exhibits a more compact and more prostrate growth habit than `Pfitzeriana Aurea`.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9174 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.