US Plant Patent PP17936
Vernon Morris
Viburnum plant named ‘Vernon Morris’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 4, 2026. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 20, 2025. This patent earned 15 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.
The record
- Patent number
- PP17936
- Filed
- December 20, 2005
- Granted
- August 21, 2007
- Expires
- January 4, 2026
- Assignee
- CP DELAWARE INC
- Inventor
- MORRIS JR VERNON R
Abstract
The new Viburnum dilatatum cultivar is provided that was discovered as a chance seedling of unknown parentage. The plant displays an upright and rounded configuration. The plant is freely branching and forms a dense and bushy growth habit. The attractive medium green foliage is relatively less susceptible to marginal scorching than other plants of the species. Attractive white flowers are formed in large hemispherical cymes. The attractive large creamy-yellow fruit persists until later spring. The new cultivar is well suited to provide colorful ornamentation in gardens and in the landscape over an extended period of time.
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1. A new and distinct Viburnum dilatatum plant having the following combination of characteristics: (a) displays an upright and rounded configuration, (b) is freely branching and forms a dense and bushy growth habit, (c) displays attractive medium green foliage that is relatively less susceptible to marginal scorching than other plants of the species, (d) forms numerous small white flowers in large hemispherical cymes, and (e) forms attractive large creamy-yellow fruit that persists late into the spring; substantially as illustrated and described.
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