US Plant Patent PP11955
Grand Candy
Nectarine tree named ‘Grand Candy’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 27, 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
- PP11955
- Filed
- December 27, 1999
- Granted
- June 26, 2001
- Expires
- December 27, 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 July, with first picking on Jul. 4, 1998. The fruit is uniformly large in size, subacidic 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 Ruby Diamond (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,918) nectarine as the selected seed parent and an unnamed 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 Sweet (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,961) nectarine, by producing fruit that is full red in skin color, yellow in flesh color, clingstone in type, subacidic and sweet in flavor, and firm in texture, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by having globose instead of reniform glands and by producing fruit that matures about ten days earlier and that has less red streaking in the flesh.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11955 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.