US Plant Patent PP9377
Green Giant
Magnolia grandiflora named `Green Giant`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 23, 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
- PP9377
- Filed
- June 23, 1994
- Granted
- November 21, 1995
- Expires
- June 23, 2014
- Assignee
- PLANTATION TREE COMPANY
- Inventor
- HAMMONS BRUCE
Abstract
A new southern magnolia for the grandiflora variety distinguished by its rapid dense growth and large glossy leaves which are green on both sides and exhibit minimal pubescence, as well as the coarse, textured, broad, blunt, flame shape tree and dense foliage with a strong, dominant central leader.
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 cultivar of Magnolia grandiflora, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by a coarse textured, broad, blunt, flame shape and by a pyramidal growth habit with a fairly coarse branch structure, and its dense foliage of coarse textured, green backed leaves exhibiting little pubescence and by exhibiting little to no flowering.
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