US Plant Patent PP8721
Redlac
Sweet cherry tree named `Redlac`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 8, 2012. 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
- PP8721
- Filed
- January 8, 1992
- Granted
- May 10, 1994
- Expires
- January 8, 2012
- Assignee
- CALDER DONALD A
- Inventor
- CALDER DONALD A
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of sweet cherry tree, named `Redlac` is disclosed, which is distinct from other commercial sweet cherry varieties as follows: Large fruit borne in dense clusters having higher fruit count per cluster. Fruit of larger scale than that of `Erickson Lambert` and `Rainier`. Pollen which is self-fertile and cross-fertile with other commercial sweet cherry varieties. Exceptionally frost and cold tolerance. Produces fruit with deeper skin color than that of `Erickson Lambert`. Distinctive reddish bark on young limbs. Larger leaves than comparison varieties. Red coloration on leaf petioles. The tree formed is of standard size and can be pruned to a tree having five scaffold branches to form a spreading, open centered tree.
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 cherry tree, substantially as herein shown and described.
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