US Plant Patent PP6178
Monland
Magnolia hybrid cv. Monland
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 29, 2005. 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
- PP6178
- Filed
- August 29, 1985
- Granted
- May 17, 1988
- Expires
- August 29, 2005
- Assignee
- MONROVIA NURSERY CO
- Inventor
- EILAND ROBERT
Abstract
A new and distinct selection of Magnolia grandiflora hybrid (popularly known as a Magnolia) which hereinafter shall be referred to as Magnolia grandiflora cultivar Monland. Due to the characteristics noted in this specification, the selection is believed to be an intraspecific hybrid of Magnolia grandiflora and Magnolia virginiana. Magnolia grandiflora cultivar. Monland differs from other evergreen Magnolias by possessing a combination of continuously heavy blooming due to a unique blooming pattern, longer foliage which forms a dense crown, a growth habit which is wide spreading and few to no fruit cones produced.
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 selection of Magnolia as substantially shown and described herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of continuously heavy blooming due to a unique blooming pattern, longer foliage which forms a dense crown, a growth habit which is wide spreading and few to no fruit cones produced.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6178 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.