US Plant Patent PP6075
Daisui Li
Asian pear tree named Daisui Li
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 27, 2005. 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
- PP6075
- Filed
- December 27, 1985
- Granted
- January 5, 1988
- Expires
- December 27, 2005
- Assignee
- UNIV CALIFORNIA
- Inventor
- IWAKIRI BEN T
Abstract
An Asian pear tree which is of large to medium size, vigorous, upright to slightly spreading, tall, open, medium growing and hardy; foliated with large, wide, long, medium thick, leathery, ovate leaves having acuminate apices, a margin with sharply setose serration, and a petiole of medium length and thickness; blooms early with white, medium size, fertile flowers; and is a regular and productive bearer of large to very large, obovate to globular fruit having skin which is smooth, thick to medium thick, and medium green to light green at maturity, and white flesh which is firm, somewhat coarse, crisp, tender, juicy, sweet, and subacid with a trace of tartness.
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 Asian pear tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characteristically including--in comparison to other Asian pear varieties--the regular and productive bearing of large to very large fruit which becomes picking and eating ripe after the Bartlett and the Shinko; the fruit, of excellent quality, being smooth and clean in appearance, and the flesh being white, firm, tender, crispy, juicy, sweet with a faint trace of tartness, and refreshingly mild; the storage life of the fruit being five to six months at 32° F.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6075 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.