US Plant Patent PP9828
asio 3
Asian pear tree named "asio 3"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 19, 2015. 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
- PP9828
- Filed
- September 19, 1995
- Granted
- March 18, 1997
- Expires
- September 19, 2015
- Assignee
- SUBARASHII KUDAMONO CO INC
- Inventor
- SPIRA JOEL S; SPIRA RUTH R; KONNO EUGENE S; VINCENT NEIL J
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Asian Pear, botanically known as Pyrus pyrifolia is provided. The new cultivar forms attractive extra large substantially round fruit having a dark brown russet surface with tan lenticels and a distinctive semi-sweet mild flavor. The tree and exhibits moderate vigor and possesses a well-branched and an open spreading growth habit. The leaves are medium green in coloration with pinnate moderately-branched venation and a cuspidate apex. Picking of the fruit commonly can begin during late September at Coopersburg, Pa., U.S.A. Substantial and consistent fruit crops are formed.
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 cultivar of Asian Pear, substantially as illustrated and described, which: (a) forms attractive late mid-season extra large substantially round fruit having a dark brown russet surface with tan lenticels and a semi-sweet mild flavor, (b) forms a medium-sized tree having a well-branched and an open spreading growth habit, and (c) forms generally ovate medium green leaves with pinnate venation and a cuspidate apex.
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