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US Plant Patent PP11950

June Candy

Nectarine tree named ‘June 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
PP11950
Filed
December 27, 1999
Granted
June 19, 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 in late June, with first picking on Jun. 24, 1999. 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 an unnamed white flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and Ruby Diamond (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,918) 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 desribed, that is most similar to Spring Sweet (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,962) nectarine, by producing fruit that is full red in skin color, yellow in flesh color, subacidic in flavor, clingstone in type and firm in texture, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing fruit that is sweeter in flavor, that is larger in size and that ripens 7 days earlier.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11950 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.