US Plant Patent PP13443
Burnectfive
Nectarine tree named ‘Burnectfive’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 19, 2021. 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
- PP13443
- Filed
- December 19, 2001
- Granted
- December 31, 2002
- Expires
- December 19, 2021
- Assignee
- BURCHELL NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- GERDTS TIMOTHY J; SLAUGHTER JOHN K
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree ( Prunus persica ), and which is denominated varietally as ‘Burnectfive’ and which produces an attractively colored yellow-fleshed clingstone nectarine which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 15, to May 23 under ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated our new variety nectarine tree, what we claim is new and desire to secure by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, and which is characterized principally as to novelty by producing an attractively colored yellow-fleshed clingstone nectarine which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 15 to May 23 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California.
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