US Plant Patent PP13386
Sonora
Strawberry plant named ‘Sonora’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 4, 2020. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 1, 2020. This patent earned 3 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.
The record
- Patent number
- PP13386
- Filed
- November 1, 2000
- Granted
- December 17, 2002
- Expires
- November 4, 2020
- Assignee
- DRISCOLL STRAWBERRY ASS INC
- Inventor
- MOWREY BRUCE D; KODAMA LARRY T; COSS JOANNE F; ESPEJO JR JOSEPH I; SJULIN THOMAS M
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of strawberry named ‘Sonora’. The present variety is similar to the varieties ‘Commander’, ‘San Juan’ and ‘Ana Maria’. The present variety is fully everbearing, and is further distinguished from ‘Commander’, ‘San Juan’ and ‘Ana Maria’, in particular, by its flat globose habit, strong interveinal blistering, weak leaf glossiness, rounded terminal leaflet shape of base and teeth, sparse petiole pubescence, dense to very dense stolon pubescence, a position of inflorescence above the foliage, larger calyx diameter relative to the corolla, a semi-erect attitude of the fruiting truss at first picking, predominantly conical fruit, very slight to slight differences between shapes of primary and secondary fruits, very narrow to narrow band without achenes, very weak unevenness of surface of the fruit, weak to medium glossiness of the fruit, spreading to reflexed pose of the calyx segments, even flesh color of the fruit, and absent to small hollow center size.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of strawberry plant, substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13386 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.