US Plant Patent PP8236
Rosetta almond tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 27, 2011. 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
- PP8236
- Filed
- February 27, 1991
- Granted
- May 25, 1993
- Expires
- February 27, 2011
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 new and novel almond tree which is particularly distinguished by a combination of desirable characteristics including attaining a large size at maturity, forming trees which can be trained to upright, relatively open, strongly branched, rounded shape, having medium amounts of healthy foliage, blooming substantially with and effectively pollenating "Nonpareil" and have comparable physical attributes and commercial value as the produce of the Nonpareil so the nut meats can be mixed therewith, and regularly producing, by about September 13, heavy crops of nuts of medium size, having cork characteristics which are nonpervasive to insects but which render kernels of large size desirable shape and good quality; and having nuts which are easily separated from hulls.
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 almond tree is illustrated and described, particularly characterized by its upright tree form which is less willowy than Nonpareil; of large size; by blooming prior to and concurrently with Nonpareil and harvesting just after the Nonpareil; by excellent pollenization of other varieties such as Nonpareil; by bearing nuts that hull more easily and knock easily from the trees; by bearing nuts with a tighter, more well sealed cork imparting superior disease and insect resistance, the nuts being of superior quality and hulls easily, the nuts having meat which has comparable physical attributes and the same commercial value as the Nonpareil and can be mixed therewith at harvest.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8236 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.