US Plant Patent PP4388
Chandler
Walnut tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 21, 1998. 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
- PP4388
- Filed
- April 21, 1978
- Granted
- February 27, 1979
- Expires
- April 21, 1998
- Assignee
- UNIV CALIFORNIA
- Inventor
- FORDE HAROLD I
Abstract
A new and distinct walnut tree being a precocious producer of nuts of nearly elliptical shape with a small point at the apex. The smooth, well filled nuts are well sealed around plump kernels.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct cultivar of walnut tree herein described and illustrated and characterized by its semi-upright growth, moderate vigor, heavy production and mid-season harvest; said variety having its start of growth and its harvest about the same time as Hartley; said variety being further characterized by its production of pistillate flowers on nearly all shoots from terminal buds and on about 80 percent of shoots from axillary buds; said percent being substantially higher than other varieties currently in use and which have the same time of starting growth and nut maturity; said variety being primarily characterized by its nut, a majority of the kernels of which are light colored and glossy; said nut being nearly elliptical in longitudinal section with a small point at the apex and having a nut shell of medium light color, nearly smooth and well filled and sealed.
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