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US Plant Patent PP8570

Marshall Rose

"Marshall Rose" nectarine tree

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 19, 2012. 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
PP8570
Filed
November 19, 1992
Granted
February 1, 1994
Expires
November 19, 2012
Inventor
MARSHALL RICHARD J

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree producing fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately June 9 to July 2 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California with skin which has a dark red coloration at harvest with distinctive white flesh and the fruit being cling to semi-freestone by nature.

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

Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of nectarine tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree substantially as illustrated and described characterized by producing cling to semi-freestone fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately June 9 to July 2 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California, which have a distinctive white flesh, a dark red skin coloration and a pleasing flavor.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8570 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.