US Plant Patent PP10479
Arctic Belle
Nectarine tree `Arctic Belle`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 21, 2017. 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
- PP10479
- Filed
- April 21, 1997
- Granted
- July 7, 1998
- Expires
- April 21, 2017
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree (Prunus persica var. nucipersica); its novelty consists of the following unique combination of desirable features that are outstanding in a new variety: 1. Fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 2. Heavy and regular production of large size fruit. 3. Fruit with firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality. 4. Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color. 5. Fruit staying firm on the tree 8 to 10 days after maturity (shipping ripe). 6. Relatively uniform ripening of fruit throughout the tree.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth, and a productive and regular bearer of large size, white flesh, semi-freestone fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality and, in comparison to the white flesh Arctic Rose Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,889), the new variety has greater production of larger size fruit and is 4 to 5 days later in maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10479 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.