US Plant Patent PP5911
McLeon
Pecan tree named McLeon
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 3, 2005. 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
- PP5911
- Filed
- September 3, 1985
- Granted
- March 24, 1987
- Expires
- September 3, 2005
- Inventor
- MCDOWELL GILBERT
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of pecan tree distinguished by its resistance to cold weather and its ability to produce a high yield nut crop farther north, i.e. as far north as Nevada, Mo., and more consistently than any southern variety, the fruit ripening in midseason all at the same time and being exceptionally easy to harvest. This new pecan tree is resistant to pecan weevils and scab disease prevalent in other varieties in the same orchard, and because of its open center growth with widely branching limbs, there is good air circulation between the leaves which materially reduces the incidents of mildew or fungus diseases. The growth rate of this tree is unusually rapid with nut production occurring four years after being grafted. The nuts generally run about fifty-five to the pound and the cracking percentage in approximately fifty-five to sixty percent.
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 pecan tree, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its prolific production of large size and very thin shelled nuts, its consistent ripening period with all nuts ripening together for harvesting the full crop at the same time, its relatively high shelling quality, and its resistance to cold and frost and abundant production of high quality nuts in orchard locations considerably farther north, i.e. as Vernon County, Mo., than heretofore believed to be practical, and its resistance to disease.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5911 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.