US Plant Patent PP22471
Pearl Time
Nectarine tree named ‘Pearl Time’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends December 13, 2030.
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
- PP22471
- Filed
- December 13, 2010
- Granted
- January 31, 2012
- Expires
- December 13, 2030
- Assignee
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
- Inventor
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
Abstract
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, Prunus persica, broadly characterized by a medium size, moderately vigorous, half-hardy, self-fertile, very productive and regular bearing tree. The variety blooms during the early to mid season and requires about 500 chilling hours. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in mid to late June, with first picking on Jun. 22, 2010. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, globose in shape, freestone in type, firm and melting in texture, white in flesh color, mostly red in skin color, and sub-acid and very sweet in flavor.
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 most similar to ‘Spring Pearl’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 16,034) nectarine by producing fruit that is white in flesh color, almost full red in skin color, firm in texture, sub-acidic in flavor, and that matures in mid to late June, but is distinguished therefrom by requiring less chilling hours, by blooming earlier, by having globose instead of reniform leaf glands, and by producing fruit that is freestone instead of clingstone in type, that is sweeter in flavor, and that matures about five days earlier.
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