US Plant Patent PP11954
Grand Sweet
Nectarine tree named ‘Grand Sweet’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 20, 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
- PP11954
- Filed
- December 20, 1999
- Granted
- June 26, 2001
- Expires
- December 20, 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. 20, 1999. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, subacidic and sweet in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, very firm and crisp in texture, and fully red in skin color. The variety was a first generation cross using Red Glen (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,193) yellow flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and June Pearl (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,360) white flesh nectarine 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 its sister cross, Grand Pearl (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,960) white flesh nectarine, by producing fruit that is dark red in skin color, very firm in texture, sweet and subacidic in flavor, medium in size, clingstone in type and that ripens in mid July during normal years, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing fruit that is yellow instead of white in flesh color and that has less skin freckling.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11954 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.