US Plant Patent PP5233
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Tricolor variegated pittosporum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 29, 2002. 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
- PP5233
- Filed
- November 29, 1982
- Granted
- May 15, 1984
- Expires
- November 29, 2002
- Inventor
- TURNER SR TED L
Abstract
A pittosporum plant which has a dwarf habit of growth and having leaf blades which are variegated, there being irregularly shaped areas of three different colors present on the variegated leaves, such being dark green, medium green and pale yellow. The variegated leaves do not have a uniform pattern of variegation, and the pattern of variegation differs from leaf to leaf.
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 pittosporum, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of: A dwarf and compact habit of growth makes it especially suitable as a border plant, as a small hedge, in planter boxes and as a pot plant; a slow rate of growth which is advantageous in that frequent pruning is not necessary to maintain the shrub in a pleasing shape; an ability to be asexually reproduced; the ability to provide a shrub having three colors by reason of the variegated nature of all or substantially all of the broadleaf evergreen leaves occuring on the new variety, the variegation consisting of irregular shaped areas of dark green, medium green and pale yellow, with the dark green area of a leaf generally being in the central base area of the leaf, and the medium green and pale yellow areas generally forming an irregular margin area on each leaf, the pattern of variegation varying from leaf to leaf, and which leaves grow alternately in a whorl on the branches; and the ability to tolerate pruning in order that attractive shapes can be maintained.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5233 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.