US Plant Patent PP10241
Kay Glo
Nectarine tree `Kay Glo`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 24, 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
- PP10241
- Filed
- December 24, 1996
- Granted
- February 17, 1998
- Expires
- December 24, 2016
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree (Prunus persica var. nucipersica) which has the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Heavy and regular production of large size fruit. 2. Fruit with an attractive red skin color. 3. Early maturity of the fruit. 4. Fruit with good storage and shipping quality. 5. Vigorous, semi-upright growth. 6. Relatively uniform size fruit throughout the tree. 7. Fruit holding firm on the tree for approximately 7 to 10 days after maturity (shipping ripe). 8. Fruit with very good flavor and eating 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 to its large size, vigorous, semi-upright growth and a productive and regular bearer of large, firm, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit with very good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having very firm flesh with good handling and shipping quality, having an attractive red skin color and, in comparison to the May Grand Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2794), the new variety has greater production of larger size fruit, fewer split pits and is approximately 3 to 4 days earlier in maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10241 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.