US Plant Patent PP10789
Ambrosia
Apple tree named `Ambrosia`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 19, 2017. 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
- PP10789
- Filed
- June 19, 1997
- Granted
- February 16, 1999
- Expires
- June 19, 2017
- Inventor
- MENNELL WILFRID JOHN; MENNELL SALLY BETH
Abstract
The present invention relates to an apple tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety named `Ambrosia`, broadly characterized by its aroma, taste, color, shape, precocity and productivity. The variety has a distinct fruity aroma. The taste is very sweet and subacid. The flesh is firm and crisp in texture. The skin color has a high gloss, 70% to 90% bright red blush with broad faint stripes on a cream to yellow background. The fruit is conical and angular in shape with slight calyx lobing and a wide eye basin. `Ambrosia` is a mid to late season apple maturing about the 16th to 21st of September at Cawston, British Columbia, Canada. `Ambrosia` was discovered as a naturally occurring chance seedling in the cultivated orchard of Wilfrid and Sally Mennell at Cawston, British Columbia Canada.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of apple tree, originating as a chance seedling, substantially illustrated and described, which is most similar to `Jonagold` and characterized as to novelty by the bright red blush with faint red striped overcolor on a cream to yellow background, the conical and angular shape, wide eye basin, and the unique combination of taste, texture and juiciness which are different from other dessert quality apples.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10789 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.