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US Plant Patent PP12436

Ventura

Strawberry plant named ‘Ventura’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 13, 2020. 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.

Figure 5 of US plant patent PP12436, the photograph of Ventura printed in the patent.
Figure 5 from US Plant Patent PP12436, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP12436
Filed
March 13, 2000
Granted
March 5, 2002
Expires
March 13, 2020
Assignee
DRISCOLL STRAWBERRY ASS INC
Inventor
AMORAO AMADO Q; SOLIS JR ARNOLDO; SJULIN THOMAS M

Abstract

This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of strawberry named ‘Ventura’. The variety is similar to the varieties ‘E26’, ‘Montalvo’, and ‘Baeza’. The variety is distinguished from ‘E26’, ‘Montalvo’, and ‘Baeza’, in particular, by its globose to flat globose habit, medium density, weak to medium vigor, medium leaf glossiness, calyx diameter that is smaller relative to the corolla, semi-erect attitude at first picking, conical to cordate fruit shape, slight differences in shape between the primary and secondary fruit, narrow band without achenes, insertion of the calyx that is in a basin to level, weak to medium adherence of the calyx, and fruit with firm flesh and a small hollow center.

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 PP12436 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.