US Plant Patent PP4790
Nectarine tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 15, 2000. 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
- PP4790
- Filed
- September 15, 1980
- Granted
- November 17, 1981
- Expires
- September 15, 2000
- Inventor
- ANDERSON FREDERIC W
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A nectarine tree which is of large-medium size, spreading, hardy, foliated with large, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate margin, medium length petiole, and medium size, alternate, reniform glands, blooms early-medium from hardy, medium length, pointed flower buds, the flowers being large and pink, and the tree is a regular and productive bearer of large, early-ripening, uniform, symmetrical, globose-oblong fruit which is freestone when fully ripe, the fruit having a yellow ground color substantially overspread and highly colored with a dark red, and the flesh is yellow.
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, particularly characterized by the regular and productive bearing of large, exteriorly red, yellow fleshed, early ripening, uniform, symmetrical, globose-oblong fruit which is freestone when fully ripe; the fruit ripening between the May Grand nectarine and the Early Sun Grand nectarine, and having superior shipping and keeping quality in comparison to like-season fruit of other nectarine and peach varieties.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4790 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.