US Plant Patent PP35180
RutThu5
Thuja plant named ‘RutThu5’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends June 30, 2042.
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
- PP35180
- Filed
- June 30, 2022
- Granted
- May 23, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2042
- Assignee
- UNIV GEORGIA
- Inventor
- RUTER JOHN M
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Thuja plant named ‘RutThu5’, characterized by its nice, columnar form, dark green foliage that does not have chartreuse tips like Thuja occidentalis ‘Emerald Green’. ‘RutThu5’ can be grown with one cutting per pot compared to the industry standard of three cuttings per pot, and has similar growth rate in containers and field as three-cutting plants of ‘Emerald Green’. The new ‘RutThu5’ has demonstrated cold hardiness to about −34° F. in trials conducted in Minnesota.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of the Thuja plant named ‘RutThu5’ as illustrated and described herein.
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