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US Plant Patent PP5245

May Glo

Nectarine tree--May Glo

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 14, 2002. 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
PP5245
Filed
December 14, 1982
Granted
June 12, 1984
Expires
December 14, 2002
Inventor
ZAIGER CHRIS F

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree which has a low winter chilling requirement of approximately 300 hours and the tree is of large size, vigorous, spreading growth and a regular and productive bearer of early maturing, large, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit having a high degree of red skin color. The new variety is also characterized by having fruit that colors two to three weeks before ripening and having more highly colored fruit than most early maturing, low chilling varieties.

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

The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree with a low winter chilling requirement, approximately 300 hours below 45° Fahrenheit and the tree having vigorous, spreading growth and being a regular and productive bearer of large, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit, maturing 3 to 4 days before Armking Nectarine U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,943); the fruit is further characterized by its attractive red skin color, good eating quality and the ability to ship to long distance markets.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5245 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.