US Plant Patent PP8056
Lanzam
Dwarf flowering crab apple tree named Lanzam
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 20, 2010. 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
- PP8056
- Filed
- December 20, 1990
- Granted
- December 8, 1992
- Expires
- December 20, 2010
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of dwarf flowering crab apple tree named Lanzam is provided. The new variety can be readily distinguished from the Toringo crab apple tree (nonpatented in the United States). For instance, the new variety forms attractive dark red buds which open into white blossoms, has a compact and twiggy growth habit, has ovate-elliptic leaves, and consistently produces distinctive golden-colored fruit. The new variety is particularly well suited for growing as attractive ornamentation in the landscape.
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 flowering crab apple tree which exhibits the following combination of characteristics: (a) exhibits a dwarf, compact, upright, broadly conical and twiggy growth habit, (b) forms a profusion of attractive dark red buds which open into white blossoms, (c) consistently forms attractive golden-colored fruit, and (d) forms ovate-elliptic leaves as opposed to Malus sieboldii which commonly forms three-lobed leaves; substantially as herein shown and described.
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