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US Plant Patent PP34209

Candysweet XVI

Nectarine tree named ‘Candysweet XVI’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 17, 2041.

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 PP34209, the photograph of Candysweet XVI printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP34209, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP34209
Filed
December 17, 2021
Granted
May 10, 2022
Expires
December 17, 2041
Assignee
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN, QUISENBERRY JON M
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN; QUISENBERRY JON M

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 has a large showy blossom and blooms during the mid season, with a chilling requirement of about 550 hours. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in mid to late Mid to late August, with first picking on Aug. 18, 2021. The fruit is uniform, large in size, sub-acidic and very sweet in flavor, mostly globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm in texture, yellow in flesh color, mostly red in skin color, and has a bitter tasting kernel.

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 ‘August Bright’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 15,143) nectarine, by having a medium size tree, by being self-fertile, by having reniform leaf glands, and by producing nectarines that are mostly red in skin color, that are yellow in flesh color, that are clingstone in type, and that mature in mid August, but is distinguished therefrom by having a bitter instead of sweet kernel, by having a genetically large instead of small flower, and by producing fruit that is somewhat larger in size, sub-acidic instead of acidic in flavor, and much sweeter.

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