US Plant Patent PP8553
Z-3
Zoysia grass plant `Z-3`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 1, 2011. 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
- PP8553
- Filed
- August 1, 1991
- Granted
- January 18, 1994
- Expires
- August 1, 2011
- Assignee
- QUALITY TURFGRASS
- Inventor
- STATON THOMAS A
Abstract
I disclose that my herein invention of a new variety of Zoysia grass plant was discovered by me as a found seedling in a pot of sterile medium on my farm in Waimanalo, Oahu, Hawaii. This new discovered Zoysia grass plant is a perennial, which exhibits an attractive deep green color, color Green number 141 A, as defined by The Royal Horticultural Society of London Colour Chart, of a low decumbent dense growth habit, that produces outstanding vigorous growth and a prolific rhizome system. The anthers are dark purplish-red color, color Red-Purple 61 B; the stigmas are pale yellow-green, color Yellow-Green 150 D. The entire plant of the new claimed variety of Zoysia grass plant, is glabrous except for several short hairs at the top of the leaf sheath at the sides of the ligule.
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 grass plant, Zoysia Z-3 as herein described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8553 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.