US Plant Patent PP5937
Jonagored
Apple tree--Jonagored
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 16, 2004. 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
- PP5937
- Filed
- October 16, 1984
- Granted
- April 14, 1987
- Expires
- October 16, 2004
- Assignee
- GEMIS ZUCKERMAN DANIELLE
- Inventor
- MORREN-DE COSTER JOS
Abstract
The subject apple tree variety comprises a new Jonagold apple tree (Jonagored) originating as a sport limb mutation of a Jonagold apple tree variety, Jonagold being a crossing of Golden Delicious with Jonathan, bred by New York State Agricultural Experiment station, Geneva, N.Y. The new variety of apple tree is generally similar to its parent with respect to trunk, branches, leaves, flowers and fruit but is uniquely characterized by the significantly large dark-red fruit with most of the apples having white lenticels, and its dark-brown trunk and branches. The new variety is further characterized by the keeping quality of its fruit.
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 fruiting apple tree Malus Mill-type, as described and illustrated, characterized by a vigorous, upright growth habit with large dark-red fruit and most with white lenticels, by the keeping quality of its fruit, the wood of the tree being darker than Jonagold, and the growth habit being the same as Jonagold.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5937 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.