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US Plant Patent PP6541

Summer Lion--Tree

Nectarine tree, Summer Lion--Tree

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 13, 2007. 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
PP6541
Filed
November 13, 1987
Granted
January 17, 1989
Expires
November 13, 2007

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree denominated varietally as "Summer Lion--Three" which is somewhat similar to the Red Lion Nectarine Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,591) and the May Grand Nectarine Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,794) with which it is most closely related but which is distinguished therefrom and characterized as to novelty by producing fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting approximately July 25 through August 5 in Fresno County, Calif. and which further produces fruit that has a large size, a yellow-colored firm flesh, and is freestone by nature.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

Having thus described and illustrated our new variety of nectarine tree, what we claim is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree to be denominated varietally as "Summer Lion--Three" substantially as illustrated and described and which is characterized principally as to novelty by its production of dark red fruit which are ripe for commercial harvesting approximately July 25 through August 5 in Selma, Calif., the fruit of the subject variety being further characterized as to novelty by having a large size, a superior shape, and being freestone by nature.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6541 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.