US Plant Patent PP5073
Mesa
Almond tree ("Mesa")
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 19, 2002. 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
- PP5073
- Filed
- April 19, 1982
- Granted
- July 26, 1983
- Expires
- April 19, 2002
- Inventor
- JAMES LEONARD D
Abstract
An almond tree which is open, large, vigorous, and upright; foliated with medium size, acuminate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate margin, and alternate, small, globose, green glands; blooms early and heavily with white flowers; and is a regular, very heavy bearer of early-in-harvest, well-distributed nuts; the nuts, of medium size, being ovate, plump, soft shell, and well-sealed, and the kernels, of small but uniform size, being ovate, medium thick, and attractive in appearance.
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 a bloom-time two or three days earlier than the Mission and substantially the same as the Nonpareil, and by a harvest period about two weeks earlier than the Mission.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5073 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.