US Plant Patent PP10250
honey blaze
Nectarine tree "honey blaze"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 27, 2016. 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
- PP10250
- Filed
- December 27, 1996
- Granted
- February 24, 1998
- Expires
- December 27, 2016
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree (Prunus persica var. nucipersica) which has the following unique combination of features that are desirable in a new variety: 1. Fruit with sweet, mild, subacid flavor with excellent eating quality. 2. Regular and productive bearer of large size fruit. 3. Fruit with firm flesh and good handling and shipping quality. 4.Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color. 5. Fruit that will stay firm on the tree 12 to15 days after maturity (shipping ripe). 6. Vigorous, upright growth. 7. The ability to produce relatively uniform size fruit throughout the tree.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and being a productive and regular bearer of large size, firm, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit having a mild, sweet, subacid taste with excellent flavor and eating quality, and maturing approximately 7 days earlier than Honey Kist Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,333); the fruit days after maturity, (shipping ripe), having good handling and shipping quality and being relatively uniform in size throughout the tree.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10250 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.