US Plant Patent PP9822
Asio 4
Asian pear tree named `Asio 4`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 8, 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
- PP9822
- Filed
- October 8, 1995
- Granted
- March 11, 1997
- Expires
- October 8, 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 late-season medium-sized ovate fruit having a light brown russet surface with prominent raised tan lenticels and a very sweet and rich flavor. The tree also exhibits a vigorous dense growth habit and is well branched. The leaves are medium green in coloration with pinnate finely-branched venation and an acuminate apex. The picking of the fruit commonly occurs during mid- to late-October 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-season medium-sized ovate fruit having a light brown russet surface with prominent tan lenticles and a very sweet and rich flavor, (b) forms a large-sized tree having a well-branched, dense, and spreading growth habit, and (c) forms generally elliptical medium-sized green leaves with pinnate venation and an acuminate apex.
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