US Plant Patent PP4984
Nectarine tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 17, 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
- PP4984
- Filed
- August 17, 1981
- Granted
- February 22, 1983
- Expires
- August 17, 2001
- Inventor
- BOOS ALBERT A
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, vigorous, and upright-spreading; foliated with medium size, lanceolate leaves having a crenate to finely serrate margin, a medium length petiole, and medium size, reniform, alternate glands positioned on base of the leaf blade; flowers from hardy, pointed, medium size buds free from the stem and moderately pubescent; the flowers, blooming in medium season, being large, showy, and pink; and is a regular and productive bearer of late in mid-season, uniform, large, broadly ovoid, freestone fruit having yellow skin substantially entirely blushed with a waxy bright red, yellow flesh flecked and mottled with red, and a dark brown stone.
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 in comparison with the Fantasia by fruit in harvest approximately two weeks later, by fruit having a more attractive, waxy, bright red blush color, and by fruit of superior firmness of flesh and toughness of skin.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4984 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.