US Plant Patent PP34790
Photon
Hazelnut tree named ‘Photon’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends January 31, 2042.
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
- PP34790
- Filed
- January 31, 2022
- Granted
- December 6, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2042
- Assignee
- ZS NUTTY RIDGE LLC
- Inventor
- ZARNOWSKI JEFFREY J; ZARNOWSKI DAWN M
Abstract
A new and interspecific hybrid Corylus named “Photon” characterized by cold hardiness, erect growth habit, the production of nuts with globular kernels that fall free of the husk at maturity and a high level of tolerance (quantitative resistance to eastern filbert blight caused by the fungus Anisogramma anomala).
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What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Corylus plant, named ‘Photon’, as shown and described.
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