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US Plant Patent PP6956

Satin Cloud

Crabapple tree named Satin Cloud

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
PP6956
Filed
June 30, 1988
Granted
August 1, 1989
Expires
June 30, 2008

Abstract

An ornamental tetraploid flowering crabapple tree named Satin Cloud, having a ball-shaped, wide compact, billowy and rounded habit. Dark rose buds open to cinnamon fragrant satiny white blossoms with occasional pink tinging. Its waxy spring leaves are green with amber blushes, and the summer-long, disease resistant foliage is leathery and dark green. This low maintenance, closely internoded cultivar displays an autumn leaf color of burnt red, with gold leaves in the center shade part of the canopy.

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 Satin Cloud, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6956 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.