US Plant Patent PP10314
Excel
Variety of apple tree named Excel
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 23, 2017. 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
- PP10314
- Filed
- January 23, 1997
- Granted
- April 7, 1998
- Expires
- January 23, 2017
- Assignee
- JOMOBEL NV
- Inventor
- MORREN JOS
Abstract
A new and distinctive variety of apple Malus domestica, tree named Excel, a sport mutation of the apple variety Jonagold, uniquely characterized from its parent variety by its much better color intensity over 50% or more of the surface of the fruit with a solid bright red colored blush with scarcely visible very fine red stripes in it and a smoother texture of the skin surface. Also the ground color of its fruit keeps longer green. The fruit has a higher acidity and a longer and thinner brown/red stalk, and has earlier ripening and picking dates. The tree is also characterized by distinctly dormant fruit buds on tips which have a conical shape and by its dark brown-red wood with clearly more pubescence and fewer but bigger lenticels than its parent variety.
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I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of apple tree named Excel as described and illustrated, and which is particularly characterized over its parent variety by its much better color intensity over 50% or more of the surface of the fruit with a solid bright red colored blush with scarcely visible very fine red stripes in it and a smoother texture of the skin surface; by the ground color of its fruit keeping green longer; by the higher acidity in its fruit and a longer and thinner brown/red stalk; by the earlier ripening and picking dates of its fruit; by the tree's distinctly dormant fruit buds on tips which have a conical shape; and by its dark brown-red wood with clearly more pubescence and fewer but bigger lenticels than its parent variety.
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