US Plant Patent PP7237

Sali variety

Apple Tree: "Sali variety"

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 11, 2009. 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: PP7237
Filed: January 11, 1989
Granted: May 29, 1990
Expires: January 11, 2009

Abstract

A new variety of Red Delicious apple tree originating as a sport of the Gilbert Cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,822, exhibiting a distinctively semi-spur growth form and purplish overmature fruit coloration, and advantageously exhibiting substantially earlier color formation, earlier fruit maturation, and better resistance to sunburn than the parent tree and other Red Delicious varieties.

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 shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7237 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.