US Plant Patent PP10557
Starburst
Maackia amurensis plant named `Starburst`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 20, 2016. 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
- PP10557
- Filed
- November 20, 1996
- Granted
- August 18, 1998
- Expires
- November 20, 2016
- Assignee
- NEWPLANT ASSOCIATES
- Inventor
- FLEMER III WILLIAM
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Maackia amurensis tree, characterized particularly as to novelty by its straight trunk with attractive peeling coppery bark, exceptionally vigorous grwoth and its very large showy and abundant white panicles of flowers, born upright in closely clustered panicles at the ends of thick twigs.
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 Maackia amurensis tree, as illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its straight trunk with attractive peeling coppery bark, exceptionally vigorous growth and its very large showy and abundant white panicles of flowers, born upright in closely clustered panicles at the ends of thick twigs.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10557 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.