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US Plant Patent PP9046

Laura Expired

Nectarine tree known as Laura

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 20, 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
PP9046
Filed
December 20, 1993
Granted
January 24, 1995
Expires
December 20, 2013
Inventor
BUBANI GIOVANNI B

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree bearing fruit which is large and has yellow-gold flesh, and which matures in the early in the season, while having an excellent balance of sugar and acidity, the size of the fruit being large with skin of a red blush color ranging from dark garnet red to a lighter red with numerous yellow dots make it very attractive in appearance and flesh of a firm and crisp texture, becoming juicy with after ripening, making it very tasty to eat.

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

Having thus described and illustrated my new nectarine tree, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree substantially as shown and described, and characterized by its early maturing fruit of large size and excellent sugar balance and, further, having firm, highly edible flesh and skin of a red blush color ranging from dark garnet red to a lighter red with numerous yellow dots, giving it a very attracive appearance, and flesh of a firm and crisp texture and becoming juicy with after ripening.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9046 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.