US Plant Patent PP10293
July Pearl
Nectarine tree `July Pearl`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 16, 2016. 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
- PP10293
- Filed
- December 16, 1996
- Granted
- March 24, 1998
- Expires
- December 16, 2016
- Inventor
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN; BRADFORD NORMAN G
Abstract
The present invention relates to a nectarine tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the first week in July, with first picking on Jul. 7, 1996. The fruit is uniformly large in size, subacidic in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, medium firm in texture, and nearly full red in skin color. The variety was a first generation cross using Summer Bright (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,049) yellow flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and June Pearl (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,360) white flesh nectarine as the selected pollen parent.
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 that is most similar to its pollen parent, the June Pearl (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,360), by producing white flesh clingstone nectarines that are subacidic in flavor, medium firm in texture, full red in skin color and virtually free from red texture bleeding, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing fruit that ripens about three weeks later, that is sweeter in flavor, that is larger in size, and that is less prone to protruding at the apex.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10293 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.