US Plant Patent PP9130
Balboa
Strawberry plant called `Balboa`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 3, 2014. 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
- PP9130
- Filed
- August 3, 1994
- Granted
- May 9, 1995
- Expires
- August 3, 2014
- Assignee
- DRISCOLL STRAWBERRY ASS INC
- Inventor
- SJULIN THOMAS M; AMORAO AMADO Q; ESPEJO JR JOSEPH I
Abstract
`Balboa` is a spring bearing variety which produces smooth glossy, attractive, full colored fruit, both on the surface and in the juicy flesh and has a very good flavor. The crop is medium early in southern and central California and has the ability to produce a high volume of fruit in March, April and May in southern California, if the transplant is given proper chilling before being planted. If grown in central California, the plants have the ability to continue production in the summer and fall. The plant is characterized by being medium dark and becoming large by summer. When vigorous, it is common to have one or more leaves per plant produce four leaflets per leaf instead of the normal three. The fruit of the plant is also characterized by a large, dark calyx on primary berries which often produce a double row of serrated sepals. These sepals often become curled and are held irregularly, with narrow sepals, when present, held on the row away from the fruit, not next to the fruit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of strawberry plant herein described and illustrated, and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.
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