US Plant Patent PP14242
Diamond Pearl
Nectarine tree named ‘Diamond Pearl’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 19, 2022. 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
- PP14242
- Filed
- November 19, 2002
- Granted
- October 14, 2003
- Expires
- November 19, 2022
- 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 size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the second week in June, with first picking on Jun. 12, 2002. The fruit is uniformly large in size, excellent in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, very firm in texture, white in flesh color, and red in skin color. The variety was developed as an open pollinated seedling of ‘Candy White’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,924) white flesh nectarine.
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 ‘June Pearl’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,360) nectarine by producing nectarines that are white in flesh color, nearly full red in skin color, clingstone in type and subacid in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by by producing fruit that is much larger in size, somewhat sweeter in flavor, globose instead of oblong in shape, and matures about six days earlier.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14242 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.