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US Plant Patent PP14240

Giant Pearl

Nectarine tree named ‘Giant 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14240, the photograph of Giant Pearl printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14240, 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
PP14240
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 August, with first picking on Aug. 9, 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 mostly red in skin color. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using ‘Summer Bright’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,049) yellow flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and an unnamed white flesh 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 ‘Fire Pearl’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,358) nectarine by producing white flesh clingstone nectarines that are firm in texture, mostly red in skin color, and sweet subacid in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by having reniform instead of globose leaf glands, by having small non-showy instead of large showy blossoms, and by producing nectarines that are much larger in size and mature about ten days later.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14240 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.