US Plant Patent PP8440
Kizashi
Apple tree "Kizashi"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 25, 2012. 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
- PP8440
- Filed
- February 25, 1992
- Granted
- November 2, 1993
- Expires
- February 25, 2012
- Assignee
- FRUIT TREE RESEARCH STATION MI
- Inventor
- YOSHIDA YOSHIO; HANIUDA TADAYUKI; TSUCHIYA SHICHIRO; MASUDA TETSUO; BESSHO HIDEO; SANADA TETSURO; KOMORI SADAO; MCKENZIE DONALD W
Abstract
Disclosed is an apple tree having a strong vigor, long and narrow leaves, and bearing a slightly small fruit maturing earlier than "Tsugaru". The fruit has a conical to rounded-conical shape, and a deep red to deep reddish orange (ISCC - NBS) skin. The flesh of the fruit is yellowish (ISCC - NBS) white, juicy and has a moderate texture, and further, has a moderate sweet and sour taste. The fruit of the present apple trees ripen for eating and can be picked earlier than other early maturing varieties, thereby providing the fruit with an excellent market value, in particular, in mid-summer.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of apple tree, substantially as illustrated and described herein, characterized over known apple trees by (A) having a strong vigor, and (B) having leaves which are a particular long and narrow shape, and (C) bearing slightly small, conical to rounded-conical, attractive brightly colored a deep red to deep reddish orange (ISCC - NBS) colored fruit, (1) maturing earlier than "Tsugaru", and (2) having a yellowish white (ISCC - NBS) flesh that is juicy with a good texture and a moderately sweet and sour taste, and (D) having an excellent consumption quality, in particular, in mid-summer.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8440 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.