US Plant Patent PP4894
Nectarine tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 9, 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
- PP4894
- Filed
- February 9, 1981
- Granted
- October 12, 1982
- Expires
- February 9, 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, dense, and round-topped; foliated with medium size, ovate, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate margin, and opposite-irregular, medium size, green, uniform glands; flowers from plump, 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 large, firm-fleshed, visually attractive, globose, freestone fruit, uniform in size and shape, 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 illustrated and described, characterized, in particular, by freestone fruit having general resemblance to the Summer Grand but ripening about a week earlier, and ripening substantially with the Sun Grand and Flavortop.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4894 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.