US Plant Patent PP11891
Durango
Almond tree named ‘Durango’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 29, 2018. 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
- PP11891
- Filed
- April 29, 1998
- Granted
- May 22, 2001
- Expires
- April 29, 2018
- Inventor
- CHAIDEZ JOHN
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of almond tree which is somewhat similar to the ‘Peerless’ almond tree, but distinguished therefrom by producing fruit that matures three to five days later for harvesting, hulling and shipping than the fruit produced by the ‘Peerless’ almond tree, and which further produces a high quality fruit of medium size and possessing a soft shell; an important different characteristic from the ‘Peerless’ variety. Specifically, the ‘Peerless’ shell requires that a metal cracker be used to remove the kernel from the shell, whereas the ‘Durango’ kernel can be removed with the use of one's fingers. This new invention has a rich flavor and is comparatively free of doubles (kernels in the shell).
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of almond tree, which I claim as a new and desired to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of almond tree as herein illustrated and described, and which is somewhat similar to the ‘Peerless’ and yet varietally similar to the ‘Carmel’ almond but is distinguished therefrom and characterized principally as to novelty by producing fruit (nuts) which are mature commercially for harvesting, hulling, and shipping during the last week of August and the first week of September in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California, which has excellent flavor, and which has a soft shell, making hulling very easy and is a highly marketable nut with very few doubles, and a high percentage of meat weight in the shell with a light brown color and excellent keeping qualities.
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