US Patent Issued to Elizabeth MacGregor's Nursery on March 24 for "Geum plant named 'MACGEU050'" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. PP37,342, issued on March 24, was assigned to Elizabeth MacGregor's Nursery (Kirkcudbright, Great Britain).

"Geum plant named 'MACGEU050'" was invented by Alasdair MacGregor (Kirkcudbright, Great Britain), Elizabeth MacGregor (Kirkcudbright, Great Britain) and John MacGregor (Kirkcudbright, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "'MACGEU050' is a new and distinctive variety of Geum hybrid which is characterized by a clump-forming growth habit, yellow semi-double flowers held on compound cymes above the foliage, and a long bloom period. The new variety propagates successfully by stem cuttings and tissue culture and has shown to be unif...