US Plant Patent PP5520
Brackens Brown Beauty
Magnolia grandiflora named Brackens Brown Beauty
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 23, 2003. 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
- PP5520
- Filed
- December 23, 1983
- Granted
- July 23, 1985
- Expires
- December 23, 2003
- Assignee
- RAY BRACKEN NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- BRACKEN RAY
Abstract
A new Southern magnolia of the grandiflora variety distinguished by a rapid growth rate and an abundant branch and foliage development which maintains a very dense habit from ground to almost the very top producing a compact pyramidal-oval crown, the abundant foliage being particularly distinguished by the yellow-green coloring of the new leaves which change to dark green at maturity and all of which have a rusty brown pubescence on the under side which affords a distinctive green and brown coloration for the entire tree. This new magnolia grandiflora is further distinguished by its profuse production of creamy white flowers which are half the size or less than those of the species and produce fruit that is about half the size of the fruit normal to the species.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of magnolia grandiflora, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its vigorous, dense, pyramidal growth habit and its abundant production of small, white, very fragrant flowers and rose red fruits which are half the size of those normal to the species.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5520 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.