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US Plant Patent PP18568

Top mandarin seedless

Mandarin tree named ‘Top mandarin seedless’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 30, 2025. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP18568, the photograph of Top mandarin seedless printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP18568, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP18568
Filed
December 30, 2005
Granted
March 11, 2008
Expires
December 30, 2025
Assignee
FUTURE FRUIT LLC
Inventor
RECUPERO GIUSEPPE REFORGIATO; RUSSO GIUSEPPE; RECUPERO SANTO

Abstract

A new and distinct seedless mandarin named ‘Top Mandarin Seedless’ characterized by late bearing in January through to February in the citrus areas of Sicily, Italy and Riverside, Calif. The tree has high yields and bears from years three onwards. It is further characterized by being a triploid and genetically seedless. The fruit is well sized having a typical mandarin shape (round, flattened) and has acceptable rind thickness with a smooth texture. The fruit stores well, and has reddish pigmented flesh, good acid-sugar ratios, and good external color. The fruit has an average juice content of about 40-50% at harvest.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of a seedless mandarin tree as described and illustrated called ‘Top Mandarin Seedless,’ that is characterized as a triploid having late fruit production from about the end of January through to about February in the citrus areas of Sicily, Italy and Riverside, Calif., the trees coming into bearing by year 3, the seedless fruit having typically mandarin, flattened round shape with smooth skin texture, and having acceptable rind thickness, a reddish pigmentation in the flesh, acceptable acid-sugar ratios, and an average juice content at harvest of about 40-50%.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP18568 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.