US Plant Patent PP9643
Crystal Belle
Nectarine tree `Crystal Belle`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 2, 2015. 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
- PP9643
- Filed
- August 2, 1995
- Granted
- September 17, 1996
- Expires
- August 2, 2015
- Inventor
- ESCANDE JEAN L
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree which has a harvesting date which is earlier than that of the Arctic Glo nectarine tree [U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,884], which matures in the same season, but which is distinguished therefrom and characterized principally as to novelty by producing fruit which have a semi-freestone nature, firm flesh texture, and an attractive skin color at commercial maturity.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described my new variety of nectarine tree, what I claim as new and desired to secure by plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree substantially as illustrated and described and which is somewhat similar to the Arctic Glo nectarine tree [U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,884] which matures in approximately the same season, but which is distinguishable therefrom, and characterized principally as to novelty by producing fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment on approximately June 1 through June 11 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California, and which further has an attractive, bright red exterior coloration, and is semi-freestone, to freestone by nature.
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