US Plant Patent PP8640
Traveller
Texas redbud tree named Traveller
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 10, 2012. 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
- PP8640
- Filed
- September 10, 1992
- Granted
- March 15, 1994
- Expires
- September 10, 2012
- Assignee
- HOSAGE JR DANIEL A
- Inventor
- HOSAGE JR DANIEL A
Abstract
A variety of Texas Redbud (Cercis canadensis var. texensis) having alternating stem branching with the orientation of shoot tip growth approximately - 45° from the horizon with occasional arching shoots eventually reorienting downward. The leaves are cauline, petiolate with petioles glabrous and terete. Emerging foilage is red in color.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. I claim a new and distinct variety of redbud, herein shown and described, characterized by its shoot tip growth orientation approximately -45° from the horizon with occasional arching shoots reorienting downwardly.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8640 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.