US Plant Patent PP9871
Sunmist
Nectarine tree called "Sunmist"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 22, 2014. 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
- PP9871
- Filed
- August 22, 1994
- Granted
- April 29, 1997
- Expires
- August 22, 2014
- Inventor
- SHERMAN WAYNE B
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, Prunus persica, which has a low winter chilling requirement of approximately 300 chill units (cu). The tree is of large size, is highly vigorous, has a spreading growth habit and has showy pink flowers. The flowers have terra cotta (red) anthers. Glands are reniform in shape and isolated on the basal portions of the leave. This tree, which has been denominated `Sunmist` is a regular bearer of heavy crops of early maturing, large (for early ripening season), semi-freestone fruit with white flesh color. Fruit is uniform, attractive, substantially symmetrical shape, and has an attractive normally nearly solid ruby to red over-color. The fruit ripens substantially with that of `Sunred`, but is larger, firmer and of very good eating quality.
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, as illustrated and described, characterized by a low chilling requirement and bearing early-ripening fruit with white flesh and high eating quality, and with aroma typically associated whith white flesh.
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