US Plant Patent PP5812
Pezzulla
Tomato plant `Pezzulla`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 5, 2004. 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
- PP5812
- Filed
- July 5, 1984
- Granted
- November 25, 1986
- Expires
- July 5, 2004
- Inventor
- PEZZULLA ANNA M
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of paste-type tomato is derived in part from the "Roma" and in part from Italian banana tomatoes. The plant is characterized by thick stalks and stems, but slender, relatively-sparce light green foliage. The plant flowers early, and sets long, thin blossoms. Maturity is reached in approximately seventy-eight days. Very numerous, uniformly large, low acid fruit are produced in clusters of five or six fruits per cluster and more than thirty fruits per plant. The fruits are meaty and have few seeds. The fruits are extremely large, weighing one to three pounds, and measure twelve to seventeen centimeters in length and five to eight centimeters in diameter in an elongated plum shape.
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What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of paste-type tomato plant, as described and illustrated, characterized by a thick stalk and closely-spaced stems, and slender, light green, relatively sparse leaves, long, thin clustered blossoms developing into very numerous, very uniform and very large stocky, elongated plum-shaped fruit varying somewhat to tapering or teardropped shape with a short conical nipple, the fruits being very meaty and with few seeds, the overall plant being quite hearty and drought resistant.
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