US Plant Patent PP5472
Jenred
Red delicious apple tree--Jenred cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 13, 2003. 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
- PP5472
- Filed
- May 13, 1983
- Granted
- May 21, 1985
- Expires
- May 13, 2003
- Assignee
- STARK BROTHERS NURSERIES & ORC
- Inventor
- JENKINS PHILIP J
Abstract
A new and distinct spur-type Red Delicious apple variety is provided which originated as a limb mutation of the apple tree of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,816. The fruit of the new variety is conic shaped and highly attractive since at maturity it is fully covered with conspicuous dark red stripes over a bright red ground color. Unlike fruit formed on the parent, the fruit of the new variety colors approximately 15 days earlier, and colors more fully in years when environmental conditions do not favour the coloring of Red Delicious apples.
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 spur-type Red Delicious apple tree substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by the ability to form attractive conic shaped fruit having conspicuous dark red stripes over a bright red ground color and a general similarity to its parent described in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,816, but being distinct therefrom by the ability of its fruit (a) to color approximately 15 days earlier, and (b) to color more completely each year in spite of environmental conditions which do not favor the fruit coloring of Red Delicious apples.
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