US Plant Patent PP5382
SR100
Almond tree `SR100`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 20, 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
- PP5382
- Filed
- December 20, 1982
- Granted
- January 1, 1985
- Expires
- December 20, 2002
- Inventor
- ESAU RAYMOND J
Abstract
An almond tree which is medium size, open, spreading, and vigorous; abundantly foliated with medium size, acuminate, acutely pointed leaves having a glandular, coarsely serrate margin, a medium length petiole, and medium size, alternate, globose, green glands; blooms very heavily with reddish-pink flowers; and is a regular and heavy bearer of well-distributed nuts borne in thin, tough hulls; the out-of-hull nuts and the out-of-shell kernels being of medium size and oval form.
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, which blooms very heavily with reddish-pink flowers, the bloom being with the Nonpareil, and which tree is a regular and heavy bearer of medium size, oval nuts in harvest after the Nonpareil; the nuts having a minimum of pre-season drop yet shake easily and cleanly from the tree, and having good nut-in-hull retention for harvest.
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