US Plant Patent PP10022
Spring Glo
Nectarine tree "Spring Glo"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 11, 2016. 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
- PP10022
- Filed
- March 11, 1996
- Granted
- September 9, 1997
- Expires
- March 11, 2016
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine, Prunus persica, tree; its novelty consists of the following unique combination of features that are desirable in a new variety: 1. Early maturity of medium size fruit. 2. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 3. Fruit with firm flesh, good handlng and shipping quality. 4. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 5. Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color. 6. Fruit with a low winter chilling requirement of approximately 350 hours. 7. Having a vigorous, upright growth habit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and a productive and regular bearer of medium size, early maturing, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit with good flavor and eating quality; the tree is further characterized by having a low chilling requirement of approximately 350 hours, producing fruit with an attractive red skin color and has firm flesh with good handling and shipping quality, in comparison to the fruit of the May Glo Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,245), the fruit is approximately 7 days earlier in maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10022 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.