US Plant Patent PP11612
TMGH
Southern Magnolia tree named `TMGH`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 22, 2018. 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
- PP11612
- Filed
- September 22, 1998
- Granted
- October 31, 2000
- Expires
- September 22, 2018
- Assignee
- TREE INTRODUCTIONS INC
- Inventor
- STRICKLAND THOMAS JULIAN
Abstract
A Southern Magnolia named `TMGH` having an upright compact growth habit with a dense foliage canopy, a dominant leader with secondary branches ascending upwardly, lustrous dark green, narrow leaves with a rusty-brown back, a dense, fibrous root system, and also capable of being reproduced reliably from vegetative cuttings.
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 Southern Magnolia tree substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its unique narrow-columnar dense growth habit, narrow, lustrous dark green leaves with a rusty-brown back, and a dense, fibrous root system.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11612 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.