US Plant Patent PP7142
Malus Coral Cascade
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 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
- PP7142
- Filed
- December 30, 1988
- Granted
- February 6, 1990
- Expires
- December 30, 2008
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
Named for its graceful, semi-weeping habit and persistant coral-orange fruit, Malus cultivar `Coral Cascade` offers a unique fall display among crabapple cultivars with a weeping habit. The abundant load of large pea-sized ornamental fruit causes its slender horizontal branches to droop in a cascade of reddish-orange color. Its annual fruit production results in a permanent downward arching of the branches as the plant ages. This crabapples small stature (15' tall×20' wide in 30 years) makes it desirable for use in prominant landscape locations, elevated planters, and beneath power lines. The spring flower display starts with pinkish-red buds on pendulous pedicels of about 1.5" (4 cm) in length. The abundant flowers open white with the abaxial edges of the petals remaining pink. `Coral Cascade` has an established record of disease resistance. Its thick, green leaves retain their high quality until fall frosts transform them to golden hues of yellow, orange and tan.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive variety of flowering crabapple tree, as described and illustrated, a clone which is especially distinctive because of its wide-spreading, cascading habit of growth, especially when loaded with fruit in the Fall; an extremely profuse and striking annual display of persistant, small, glossy fruit of an unusual and uncommon coral-orange coloration; as well as being easily propagated vegetatively and coming true to the original selection, fairly rapid growing and apparently free from diseases which normally affect flowering crabapples.
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