US Plant Patent PP10989
Princeton Snowcloud
Prunus sargentii plant named `Princeton Snowcloud`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 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
- PP10989
- Filed
- August 22, 1997
- Granted
- June 29, 1999
- Expires
- August 22, 2017
- Assignee
- TREESEARCH
- Inventor
- FLEMER III WILLIAM
Abstract
A new and distinct Prunus plant characterized by having a very vigorous growth, being one third larger than sibling seedlings in the same row, and for its very abundant, large white flowers, unusual in the species which normally bears pink flowers. The autumn foliage turns a brilliant red color in late October. It is the most cold hardy of the white Japanese cherry trees.
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 Prunus plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its very vigorous growth habit, by its very abundant, large white flowers, and by its cold hardiness in USDA hardiness zone 5-A.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10989 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.