US Plant Patent PP5555
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Weigela plant - geenaltan
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 22, 2003. 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
- PP5555
- Filed
- December 22, 1983
- Granted
- September 10, 1985
- Expires
- December 22, 2003
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- GEERS JR HERMANN
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Weigela is provided which originated as a volunteer seedling in a planting of Weigela florida Eva Rathke variety at Boskoop, The Netherlands. The present variety exhibits a vigorous and truly dwarf growth habit and forms attractive crimson flowers in greater abundance and for a longer duration than Weigela florida Eva Rathke variety. Accordingly, the present variety can be used to advantage in smaller landscape settings while offering superior characteristics when compared to related previously known Weigela plants which are larger in size and which flower to a lesser degree.
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 Weigela, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized as to novelty by the following combination of characteristics: (a) a vigorous dwarf growth habit wherein the plant assumes about one-third the size of Weigela florida Eva Rathke, and a size which is substantially smaller than that of Weigela florida Eva Supreme, (b) a deep crimson flower coloration which is very close to that of Weigela florida Eva Rathke, (c) a flower size which is very close to that of Weigela florida Eva Rathke, and (d) flower formation in a greater abundance and for a longer duration than Weigela florida Eva Rathke, with said floriferousness commonly reaching its height during early to mid-June when grown at West Grove, Pa., and continuing thereafter though in moderation until frost.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5555 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.