US Plant Patent PP4405
Howard
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
- PP4405
- Filed
- April 21, 1978
- Granted
- April 10, 1979
- Expires
- April 21, 1998
- Assignee
- UNIV CALIFORNIA
- Inventor
- FORDE HAROLD I
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Juglans regia characterized in having semi-upright growth, moderate vigor and early, heavy production; and a distinguishing short, elliptical nut shape. The medium textured, light colored shell is well sealed, having a kernel percentage average of about 54 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 variety of walnut tree herein described and illustrated and characterized by its semi-upright growth, moderate vigor, heavy production and early harvest; said variety having its start of growth about the same time as Hartley and its harvest about 4 or 5 days before Hartley; said variety being further characterized by its production of pistillate flowers on nearly all shoots from terminal buds and on about 80 percent from shoots of axillary buds; said percent being substantially higher than other varieties currently in use and which have the same starting growth and nut maturity, and being about the same as U.C. 64-172; said variety being primarily characterized by its nuts, the ends of which are somewhat flattened and which are elliptical in longitudinal cross section with the ellipse being quite short in relation to diameter; said nuts having a shell light in color, medium in texture which is well filled and sealed.
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