US Plant Patent PP4919
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Variegated Pittosporum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 12, 2001. 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
- PP4919
- Filed
- May 12, 1981
- Granted
- November 2, 1982
- Expires
- May 12, 2001
- Inventor
- TURNER SR TED L
Abstract
A pittosporum plant which has a dwarf habit of growth, the leaf blades being variegated and generally being medium green in color with pale yellow margins, the width of the pale yellow variegation being irregular.
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 a plurality of colors by reason of the variegated nature of the leaves of the new variety, which leaves are medium green with pronounced variegated margins of irregular depth of pale yellow color, 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 PP4919 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.