US Plant Patent PP7947

Jolly

Nectarine tree Jolly Red Giant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 14, 2011. 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: PP7947
Filed: January 14, 1991
Granted: August 18, 1992
Expires: January 14, 2011

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree which has the following outstanding features that are desirable in a new variety: 1. Very large size freestone fruit. 2. Fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 3. Vigorous upright growth. 4. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 5. Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color. 6. Fruit with good storage and shipping quality.

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, upright, vigorous growth and a productive and regular bearer of very large, firm, yellow flesh, freestone fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality; the new variety is further characterized in comparison to Red Grand Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,060) as producing larger fruit, being heavier in production, having fruit with a higher degree of attractive red skin color, which are freestone instead of clingstone.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7947 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.