US Plant Patent PP7878
Griffspur
Apple tree named Griffspur
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 23, 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
- PP7878
- Filed
- August 23, 1990
- Granted
- June 2, 1992
- Expires
- August 23, 2010
Abstract
A new and distinct spur-type apple variety is provided which originated as a limb of the Griffith cultivar of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,835. The new variety consistently produces its fruit on short fruiting branches (spurs) which are shorter and much more abundant than the spurs of the Griffith 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 substantially as illustrated and described, particularly characterized by a general resemblance of the fruit in shape, size, and flavor to the fruit of "Golden Delicious" but which develops an earlier yellow ground color and acquires a distinctive red blush, which has a fruit maturity of about 10 days later than the fruit of "Golden Delicious" and a longer keeping quality of the fruit, and when has good resistance to spray injury and a richer and more acid flavor than "Golden Delicious," the variety further characterized by more abundant, shorter spur-type fruiting branches than its parent variety described in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,835.
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