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US Plant Patent PP14664

Shinsei

Poplar named ‘Shinsei’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 24, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 30, 2022. This patent earned 25 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14664, the photograph of Shinsei printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14664, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP14664
Filed
May 30, 2002
Granted
April 6, 2004
Expires
June 24, 2022
Assignee
HORTICULTURE & FOOD RES INST
Inventor
WILKINSON ALLAN G; FUNG LINDSAY E

Abstract

A new and distinct poplar clonal cultivar, Populus nigra L.xP. maximowiczii A. Henry, is described. The cultivar results from a controlled pollination using a male P. maximowiczii from Hokkaido, Japan and a female P. nigra of unknown parentage. Both named parents are unpatented cultivars. The new cultivar is characterised by a narrow crown form, dark green foliage, high resistance to leaf rusts and anthracnose, and low palatability to possums.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety (clonal cultivar) of poplar tree, substantially as herein described and illustrated, characterised by a straight, narrow crown form, rapid growth and resistance to Melampsora larici - populina, M. medusae (poplar leaf rusts), Marssonina brunnea (poplar leaf anthracnose), and low palatability to Trichosurus vulpecula (possum).

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