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US Plant Patent PP9107

Crystal Rose

Nectarine tree--Crystal Rose

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 22, 2013. 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
PP9107
Filed
October 22, 1993
Granted
April 18, 1995
Expires
October 22, 2013
Inventor
ESCANDE JEAN L

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree which is denominated varietally as "Crystal Rose" and which is ripe for commercial harvesting and shipment under the ecological conditions prevailing in San Joaquin Valley of Central California approximately June 21 through July 1, the tree of the subject variety producing fruit which have a red skin color, white flesh, is free stone and further has a firm flesh at commercial maturity.

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

Having thus described and illustrated our new variety of nectarine tree what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree substantially as illustrated and described and which produces fruit which are ripe for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately seven days before the nectarine tree Arctic Rose (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,889) and approximately ten days after the nectarine tree Arctic Glo (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,884) at the same geographical location, and which is further distinguished as to novelty by having a large size, noteworthy flavor, and a white, firm flesh texture at commercial maturity.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9107 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.