US Plant Patent PP4319
J-495
Almond tree (17-J-495)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 30, 1998. 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
- PP4319
- Filed
- January 30, 1978
- Granted
- October 17, 1978
- Expires
- January 30, 1998
- Assignee
- BURCHELL NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- ANDERSON FREDERIC W
Abstract
An almond tree which is very large, open to dense, vigorous, stocky to medium in trunk form, spreading to medium in branching habit, foliated with medium size, ovate leaves having a crenate margin and globose glands, blooms medium to late with white flowers, and, with medium productivity, is an irregular bearer of late harvesting, medium-to-small size, oval-to-ovate nuts having an oval-to-ovate kernel; the tree being particularly characterized by having red anthers on the stamens of its flowers, and by being self-fruitful.
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 almond tree, substantially as illustrated and described, particularly characterized by flowers having red anthers on the stamens, and by being self-fruitful.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4319 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.