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US Plant Patent PP13475

September Bright

Nectarine tree named ‘September Bright’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 13, 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13475, the photograph of September Bright printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13475, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP13475
Filed
December 13, 2001
Granted
January 14, 2003
Expires
December 13, 2021
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN

Abstract

The present invention relates to a nectarine tree, Prunus persica and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large side, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the first week in September, with first picking on Sep. 1, 2001. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, very good in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm in texture, yellow in flesh color, and red in skin color. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using ‘August Red’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,363) yellow flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and an unnamed nectarine as the selected pollen parent.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘September Red’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,664) nectarine by producing nectarines that are yellow in flesh color and that mature in September, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by having a small nonshowy blossom and by producing fruit that is firmer in texture, that has a higher percentage of red skin color, and that is larger in size.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13475 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.