US Plant Patent PP5228
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Nectarine tree--2w68c
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 13, 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
- PP5228
- Filed
- December 13, 1982
- Granted
- May 8, 1984
- Expires
- December 13, 2002
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree which is of large size with upright vigorous growth; the tree being a regular and productive bearer of large, firm, yellow flesh clingstone fruit having yellow skin color substantially overspread with red and having excellent eating and shipping quality, maturing 3 to 4 days later than Zee Gold nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,087).
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 nectarine tree of large size, upright growth and a regular and productive bearer of large, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit with excellent eating and shipping quality and the tree is further characterized by the uniform distribution of large size fruit throughout the tree with relatively uniform ripening of the fruit, ripening 3 to 4 days later than Zee Gold nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,087).
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5228 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.