US Plant Patent PP4989
All Seasons
Sugar hackberry tree named All Seasons
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 18, 2001. 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
- PP4989
- Filed
- March 18, 1981
- Granted
- March 8, 1983
- Expires
- March 18, 2001
- Inventor
- WANDELL WILLET N
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of a new cultivar of sugar hackberry tree characterized by a well balanced, spreading crown having more branches than other sugar hackberry trees in the stand, a fast growth habit, freedom from Witches Broom disease found in native hackberry trees in the same growing area, and its being very hardy even in temperatures below -20° F.
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 sugar hackberry tree, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its rapid growth having a profusion of lateral branches and leaves with a heavier and well balanced crown with a heavier branch density, its very hardy growth habit showing hardiness at below -20° F., freedom from Witches Broom twig disease, and having less and heavier twig diameter.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4989 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.