US Plant Patent PP4896
Rene
Almond tree (Rene)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 2, 2001. 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
- PP4896
- Filed
- March 2, 1981
- Granted
- October 19, 1982
- Expires
- March 2, 2001
- Assignee
- CAMPBELL RENE M
- Inventor
- CAMPBELL RENE M
Abstract
A self-sterile almond tree which is rapid and vigorous in growth, medium size, spreading, and early producing; foliated in medium quantity with medium size, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate margin and alternate, medium size, globose, green glands; blooms late with pink flowers; and is a regular and very heavy producer, with a medium harvest period, of large, clustered nuts having large, elongated, plump kernels.
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, characterized, in comparison to the Carmel, by a more hardy, medium-size tree, whereas the Carmel tree is of small size; by interfertility but blooming with pink rather than white flowers and approximately two days later; and by nuts which are better sealed and hence more insect resistant; and further characterized by a blooming period approximately one day before Mission; by a high percentage of nut set in relation to the quantity of bloom; and by a harvest period substantially concurrent with the Ne Plus Ultra.
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