CANDYSWEET X

CANDYSWEET X

Nectarine tree named ‘CANDYSWEET X’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 26, 2027.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP19914, the photograph of CANDYSWEET X printed in the patent.

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, Prunus persica, broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The variety blooms during the mid season and requires about 550 chilling hours. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in late June, with first picking on Jun. 18, 2007. The fruit is uniformly large in size, sub-acidic and sweet in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm and melting in texture, yellow in flesh color, and almost full red in skin color.

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1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is similar to ‘Sugarine I’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 16,585) nectarine by producing fruit that is firm, yellow in flesh color, nearly full red in skin color, and sub-acidic in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom by having reniform instead of globose glands and by producing fruit that is somewhat sweeter, that has a little more freckling on the skin, and that matures about two weeks earlier.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP19914 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

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