US Plant Patent PP10853
Southern Cross
Oak tree (Q. alba×Q. michauxii)×Q. michauxii named `Southern Cross`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 22, 2017. 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
- PP10853
- Filed
- July 22, 1997
- Granted
- April 6, 1999
- Expires
- July 22, 2017
- Inventor
- LUDEKE MARTIN GLEN
Abstract
A new variety of oak is disclosed which is a backcross which has an extremely rapid growth rate, a strong central leader, graceful branching habit and tolerance of wet, periodically flooded soil.
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 oak tree, a backcross between Q. michauxii and the hybrid Q. beadlei, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of a rapid growth rate, a good timber form, a graceful branching habit and a tolerance of wet, periodically flooded soil.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10853 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.