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US Plant Patent PP13474

Sweet August

Nectarine tree named ‘Sweet August’

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 PP13474, the photograph of Sweet August printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13474, 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
PP13474
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 medium size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, and productive tree that produces fruit that is uniformly large in size, sweet and subacid in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm in texture, yellow in flesh color, and mostly red in skin color. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the second week in August, with first picking on Aug. 8, 2001. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using ‘August Snow’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,947) white flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and ‘August Red’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,363) yellow flesh 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 its selected pollen parent, ‘August Red’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,363) nectarine, by producing nectarines that are mostly red in skin color, firm in texture, globose in shape, and yellow in flesh color, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by having globose instead of reniform glands, by having a large showy blossom instead of small nonshowy, and by producing fruit that is subacid instead of acid in flavor, that is sweeter in taste, and that matures about 10 days earlier.

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