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US Plant Patent PP7527

Carlson

Nectarine tree Carlson variety

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 8, 2010. 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
PP7527
Filed
January 8, 1990
Granted
May 21, 1991
Expires
January 8, 2010

Abstract

A nectarine tree which is of medium size and vigor, spreading, vase formed; foliated with medium size reniform glands; blooms medium season from medium size buds which are plump, appressed, pubescent and pink in color; and is a regular and productive bearer of medium size, symmetrical, uniform, globose, semi-freestone fruit having orange-yellow skin substantially overspread with red when the fruit is fully ripe.

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

What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by the regular and productive bearing of yellow-fleshed, semi-freestone fruit which ripens intermediate to the RedGold and the Firebrite nectarine varieties; it is further characterized by red color which overspreads the entire fruits at harvest time.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7527 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.