US Plant Patent PP9697
Beni Shi En
Acer palmatum named `Beni Shi En`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 16, 2016. 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
- PP9697
- Filed
- January 16, 1996
- Granted
- November 19, 1996
- Expires
- January 16, 2016
- Inventor
- JOHNSTON HAROLD
Abstract
A new and distinct Acer palmatum (Japanese Maple) tree discovered as a seedling within progeny resulting from a collection of bulked seeds, taken from several varieties within the species, which is distinguished particularly by its characteristic varied expression of leaf shapes, leaf sizes and coloration. The new tree `Beni Shi En` is further characterized by forming a tree with an uncommonly dense canopy for the botanical class and by forming a small to medium sized tree at maturity, which has a weakly dominant central leader, formed by numerous slightly ascending scaffold branches, or subject to pruning, can be formed into a specimen with a rounded to broad vase-shape. Foliage coloration of this tree will vary widely as a function of location of culture, but which normally express, variably, a reddish to red-purple blush over a medium green matte top surface which has darker green striation or botches, and a clear, darker green color on the glabrous bottom surface.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct cultivar of Acer palmatum, `Beni Shi En` substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by a unique marbled foliage with a fine textured appearance and a rounded to vase shaped and slightly pendulous growth habit and its dense foliage of fine textured variegated leaves.
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