US Plant Patent PP6974
Red Swan
Crabapple tree named Red Swan
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 30, 2008. 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
- PP6974
- Filed
- June 30, 1988
- Granted
- August 8, 1989
- Expires
- June 30, 2008
Abstract
An ornamental flowering crabapple tree named Red Swan, having a graceful and small weeping form to 10 feet in maturity, with heavily textured, disease resistant lanceolate leaves. The leaves change in fall to a gold color. Bright red fruit is borne abundantly. The flower buds and blossoms are pendulous, and the initially coral pink buds change to pure white before the blossoms open.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and unique flowering crabapple tree named Red Swan, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6974 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.