US Plant Patent PP5653
Dwarf nectarine tree (Red Fantastic)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 18, 2004. 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
- PP5653
- Filed
- June 18, 1984
- Granted
- February 4, 1986
- Expires
- June 18, 2004
- Inventor
- BRADFORD NORMAN G
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
The instant variety of nectarine tree is a new and distinct genetic dwarf variety broadly characterized by a vigorous, drooping tree which reaches six feet in height and bears clingstone fruit possessing many of the characteristics of color, size, firmness and flavor generally found in nectarine fruit produced by full size trees. The fruit ripens during the first week of August under the ecological conditions described, in the San Joaquin Valley of California, and is of large size when compared to fruit of other genetic dwarf nectarine trees. The fruit is of excellent eating and shipping quality, has extreme crispness and firmness, and has an attractive red blush and waxy skin.
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 clingstone, genetic dwarf nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which most nearly resembles Sunbonnet (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,325) a genetic dwarf nectarine, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon in bearing larger fruit comparable in size to large size fruit of full size nectarine trees, which is firmer, has a redder skin color at maturity, and a waxy skin appearance.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5653 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.