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US Plant Patent PP6877

Monore

Syringa vulgaris cv Monore

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 25, 2007. 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
PP6877
Filed
November 25, 1987
Granted
June 27, 1989
Expires
November 25, 2007

Abstract

A new and distinct selection of Syringa vulgaris L. (popularly known as Common Lilac) which shall be referred to hereinafter as Syringa vulgaris cultivar Monore. Syringa vulgaris cultivar Monore differs distinctively from other lilacs by a unique combination of profuse blooming at an early age, flowering well in hot areas with little winter chilling required, or flowering well in the colder typical lilac growing areas and the two toned coloring of the purple buds that open to deep purple blue flowers.

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 Syringa vulgaris as substantially shown and described herein, that is characterized particularly as a novelty by the unique combination of profuse blooming at an early age, flowering well in hot areas with little winter chilling required, or flowering well in the colder typical lilac growing areas and the two toned coloring of the purple buds that open to deep purple blue flowers.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6877 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.