US Plant Patent PP5800
Bridal Bouquet
Flowering Crab Apple Tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 24, 2004. 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
- PP5800
- Filed
- October 24, 1984
- Granted
- November 18, 1986
- Expires
- October 24, 2004
- Assignee
- TREESEARCH
- Inventor
- FLEMER III WILLIAM
Abstract
A flowering Crab Apple Tree denominated "Bridal Bouquet" selected from a block of seedlings of Malus "Katherine," an unpatented variety, which seedling was noted as having abundant, large size, pure white-colored double flowers and in continued growth the leaves have been unaffected by Apple Scab disease or Fire Blight disease, even in wet summers, and thus die-back is not caused such as is experienced by standard Japanese Crab and Tea varieties.
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 substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of the abundance, large size, and pure white color of its double flowers, further having extreme resistance to defoliation by Apple Scab disease as compared to other varieties of crab apple trees growing nearby, and not having any tendency to die back from Fire Blight disease even in wet summers.
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