US Plant Patent PP4837
Pond
Norway Maple--Pond Cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 22, 2000. 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
- PP4837
- Filed
- February 22, 1980
- Granted
- April 13, 1982
- Expires
- February 22, 2000
- Assignee
- BAILEY NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- BAILEY RODNEY P
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Norway Maple, botanically known as Acer platanoides is provided. The new variety is distinguished from the regular Norway Maple by a marked tendency to branch at an early stage of development and a more vigorous growth habit. Also, the leaves of the new variety are darker green in color, and less pronounced lenticels are exhibited.
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 Acer platanoides, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its general similarity to the common Acer platanoides, but being distinct therefrom by (1) a marked propensity to branch at an early age, (2) an increased vigor which is manifest by an increased height and trunk diameter during the first year following budding, (3) the formation of darker green leaves having a tinge of redness which commonly are slightly cupped in configuration, and (4) the exhibition of less pronounced lenticels.
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