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US Plant Patent PP4389

Sunland

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
PP4389
Filed
April 21, 1978
Granted
February 27, 1979
Expires
April 21, 1998
Inventor
FORDE HAROLD I

Abstract

A new and distinct, very productive tree which produces walnuts which are nearly elliptical in shape; being round in cross section. The kernel averages about 59 percent.

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 spreading growth, moderate vigor, heavy production and mid-season harvest; said variety having its start of growth and leafing about the same time as Payne and a harvest time about the same as Lompoc, namely about two or three days after Hartley and 16 days after Payne; said variety being further characterized by the production of pistillate flowers on nearly all shoots from terminal buds and on about 80 percent of shoots from axillary buds; said variety being primarily characterized by its nut the kernel of which is light in color with some light amber and amber; said nut being elliptical in longitudinal section, round in cross section and having a nut apex which terminates in a small beak-shaped point; said variety also being characterized by its nut shell, which is thin, light colored, smooth and well filled and sealed.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4389 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.