US Plant Patent PP7147
Cardinal
Malus hupehensis named `Cardinal`
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
- PP7147
- Filed
- December 30, 1988
- Granted
- February 13, 1990
- Expires
- December 30, 2008
Abstract
A Malus hupehensis tree providing abundant red flowers and small, very glossy red fruits, having resistance to defoliation in hot humid summers and to leaf injury from apple scab fungus or mildew which severely affects other similar trees in an adjacent area, the tree growing rapidly and displaying a wide spreading crown.
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 Malus hupehensis tree substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty, by the abundant bright red flowers and small, very glossy red fruits produced, the ability to resist defoliation and leaf injury from apple scab fungus or mildew under conditions severely affecting other trees of Malus hupehensis growing in the same area, and the rapid growth rate of the new variety, with wide spreading crown.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7147 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.