US Plant Patent PP9072
Laurie
South American mesquite `Laurie`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 27, 2013. 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
- PP9072
- Filed
- September 27, 1993
- Granted
- March 14, 1995
- Expires
- September 27, 2013
- Assignee
- FELKER PETER
- Inventor
- FELKER PETER
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of South American Mesquite having the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Thornless nature. 2. Cold hardy to 10 F. 3. Slower vertical growth, with a greater girth to height ratio, than other South American Mesquites that leads to a tree with less of a tendency to lean with the wind. 4. Yellow pods about 12 cm long containing about 30% sugar which are useful for animal feed. 5. Feathery leaves, commonly containing 4 pair of pinnae. 6. Good resistance to stem fungal pathogens Lasiodiplodia theobromae and Pestalotiopsis guepinii. 7. Complete resistance to cotton root rot, Phymatotrichum omnivorum.
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 South American Mesquite substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its cold hardiness to -12 C. (10 F.), its lack of spines, its resistance to stem cankers caused by Lasiodiplodia theobromae and Pestalotiopsis guepinii, and its greater girth to height ratio than clone P. alba B2V50 that provides trees with less of a tendency to lean in the wind.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9072 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.