US Plant Patent PP17825
MAY PEARL II
Nectarine tree named ‘MAY PEARL II’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 20, 2025. 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
- PP17825
- Filed
- December 20, 2005
- Granted
- June 26, 2007
- Expires
- December 20, 2025
- Assignee
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
- Inventor
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
Abstract
The present invention relates to a nectarine tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, half-hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree that requires only 450 chilling hours. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in late May, with first picking on May 24, 2005. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, excellent in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm in texture, white in flesh color, and mostly red in skin color. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using an unnamed white flesh peach as the selected seed parent and ‘Rose Bright’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 15,845) as the selected pollen parent.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is similar to ‘Early Pearl’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 14,248) nectarine, by producing nectarines that are firm in texture, sub-acidic and sweet in flavor, full red in skin color, and white in flesh color, but is distinguished therefrom by requiring less chilling hours, blooming earlier, and producing fruit that is somewhat larger in size and that has a sweet instead of bitter kernel.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17825 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.