US Plant Patent PP4893
Nectarine tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 12, 2001. 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
- PP4893
- Filed
- January 12, 1981
- Granted
- October 5, 1982
- Expires
- January 12, 2001
- Assignee
- SUPERIOR FARMING CO
- Inventor
- WEINBERGER JOHN H
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 medium in size and vigor, upright-spreading, open, and round-topped; foliated with medium size, ovate, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate margin and alternate-irregular, medium size, reniform glands; flowers from appressed, pubescent buds of medium size and length; the flowers, of medium season, being large and pink; and is a regular and productive bearer of early-season, medium size, uniform, symmetrical, ovoid, freestone-semi-freestone fruit having yellow skin substantially overspread and blushed with red, and yellow flesh.
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 shown and described, characterized in comparison to the May Grand nectarine by a tree which is more productive and fruit which is in harvest approximately one week later, the fruit being more rounded and of smoother configuration.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4893 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.