US Plant Patent PP9333
Honey Kist
Nectarine tree "Honey Kist"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 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
- PP9333
- Filed
- December 22, 1994
- Granted
- October 17, 1995
- Expires
- December 22, 2014
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GARY N; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
The new and distinct nectarine tree has the following unique combination of features that are outstanding in a new variety: 1. Fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 2. Fruit with firm yellow flesh, good storage and shipping quality. 3. Fruit that will stay firm on the tree two weeks after maturity (shipping ripe). 4. Fruit with an attractive red skin color. 5. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 6. Vigorous upright growth.
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 which is a productive and regular bearer of large size, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. The fruit is further characterized by holding firm on the tree two weeks after maturity (shipping ripe), having the ability to be shipped to long distance markets and in comparision to Early Sun Grand Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,420) the new variety has the ability to produce more uniform size fruit which matures approximately 2 weeks later.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9333 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.