US Plant Patent PP7956
Apple tree -- Fiesta cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 24, 2010. 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
- PP7956
- Filed
- December 24, 1990
- Granted
- September 1, 1992
- Expires
- December 24, 2010
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of high yielding dessert apple tree is provided which originated as a cross between the Cox's Orange Pippin cultivar and the Idared cultivar. The fruit is an attractive bright red on a yellow-green background, possesses an excellent flavor, and exhibits an extended storage life. The growth habit is precocious and leads to the formation of a tree which is larger in size than Cox's Orange Pippin. The branches form wide angles and commonly are drooping particularly on young trees. The fruit skin finish is superior and of a brighter coloration than that of Cox's Orange Pippin cultivar.
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 apple tree having the following combination of characteristics: (a) is precocious and assumes a larger size than the Cox's Orange Pippin cultivar, (b) exhibits a somewhat drooping growth habit which is particularly noticeable in young trees, (c) forms in good yields attractive round and slightly flattened fruit having a smooth and shiny surface with a bright red blush which may be present as stripes and speckles on a yellow-green background and possessing an excellent flavor which is well retained upon storage, and (d) commonly exhibits a genetic leaf mottle which is unrelated to disease; substantially as herein shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7956 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.