US Plant Patent PP10919
Arctic Mist
Nectarine tree named `Arctic Mist`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 31, 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
- PP10919
- Filed
- October 31, 1997
- Granted
- May 25, 1999
- Expires
- October 31, 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) which has the following unique combination of features that are desirable in a new variety. The following features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on nemaguard rootstock, grown on Hanford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA hardiness zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., and with standard commercial cultural fruit growing practices, such as, pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigation, fertilization, etc.: 1. Vigorous, upright growth. 2. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 3. Fruit ripening in the late maturity season. 4. Produces large, freestone, white flesh fruit. 5. Fruit having excellent flavor and eating quality. 6. Fruit having firm flesh with good handling and shipping qualities. 7. Extending the California white flesh nectarines maturity season by approximately 9 days with commercial quality fruit.
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, white flesh, freestone fruit that has the ability to remain firm on the tree 7 to 8 days after maturity; the fruit is further characterized by its good handling and shipping quality, its sweet, subacid flavor and, in comparison to the late maturing, white flesh variety `Arctic Snow` Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,920), the fruit of the new variety is approximately 9 days later in maturity.
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