US Plant Patent PP11968
Diamond June
Nectarine tree named ‘Diamond June’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 21, 2019. 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
- PP11968
- Filed
- December 21, 1999
- Granted
- July 3, 2001
- Expires
- December 21, 2019
- Inventor
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
Abstract
The present invention relates to a nectarine tree, Prunus persica , and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium sized, vigorous, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the third week in June, with first picking on Jun. 25, 1999. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, acidic and sweet in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm and crisp in texture, and fully red in skin color. The variety was a first generation cross using Diamond Ray U.S. Plant Pat. No. (8,948) yellow flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and an unnamed nectarine seedling as the selected pollen parent.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to Sparkling June (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,981) nectarine, by producing fruit that is full red in skin color, yellow in flesh color, firm in texture, acidic in flavor and that ripens in mid June during normal years, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by having globose instead of reniform glands and by producing fruit that is larger in size and clingstone instead of freestone.
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