US Plant Patent PP11096
Avalon
Almond tree named `Avalon`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 17, 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
- PP11096
- Filed
- December 17, 1997
- Granted
- October 19, 1999
- Expires
- December 17, 2017
- Inventor
- MANCEBO CHARLES
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of almond tree which is somewhat remotely similar to the Nonpareil almond tree (unpatented) but which is distinguished therefrom by producing a crop which is mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately 8 days after the Nonpareil variety under the ecological conditions prevailing in Atwater, Calif.
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Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of almond tree what I claim is new and desire to secure by plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of almond tree substantially as illustrated and described, and which is somewhat similar to the Nonpareil almond tree (unpatented) but which is distinguished therefrom and characterized principally as to novelty by producing a nut which is ripe for harvesting and shipment approximately 8 days after the Nonpareil variety and approximately 6 to 7 days earlier than the Carmel almond tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2641) at the same geographical
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