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US Plant Patent PP13479

Late Pearl

Nectarine tree named ‘Late Pearl’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 13, 2021. 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 PP13479, the photograph of Late Pearl printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13479, 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
PP13479
Filed
December 13, 2001
Granted
January 14, 2003
Expires
December 13, 2021
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, and productive tree that produces fruit that is uniformly medium in size, very good in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm in texture, white in flesh color, and partially red in skin color. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the first week in September, with first picking on Sep. 5, 2001. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using Fire Pearl (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,358) white flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and September Red (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,664) yellow 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 that is similar to its selected seed parent, ‘Fire Pearl’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,358) nectarine, by producing nectarines that are globose in shape, firm in texture, white in flesh color, and subacid in flavor; and that is similar to its selected pollen parent, ‘September Red’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,664) nectarine, by producing nectarines that are medium in size, partially red in skin color and mature in early September; but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by combining these desirable traits to produce the unique nectarine tree as illustrated and

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