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US Plant Patent PP34262

Pearlicious IV

Nectarine tree named ‘Pearlicious IV’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 17, 2041.

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 PP34262, the photograph of Pearlicious IV printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP34262, 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
PP34262
Filed
December 17, 2021
Granted
May 24, 2022
Expires
December 17, 2041
Assignee
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN, QUISENBERRY JON M
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN; QUISENBERRY JON M

Abstract

The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, Prunus persica, broadly characterized by a small to medium size, moderately vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The variety blooms just before mid season and requires about 500 chilling hours. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in the last week of May, with first picking on May 23, 2021. The fruit is uniform, medium to large in size, globose to oblate in shape, semi-freestone in type, firm in texture, sub-acidic and very sweet in flavor, white in flesh color, almost full red in skin color, and has a bitter tasting kernel.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Pearlicious I’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 22,758) nectarine by being self-fertile, by having a large blossom and by producing nectarines that are white in flesh color, that are almost full red in skin color, that are firm in texture, and that are sweet and sub-acidic in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom by blooming later, requiring more chilling hours, and having globose instead of reniform leaf glands and by producing nectarines that are slightly larger in size, that are semi-freestone instead of clingstone in type, that have a bitter instead of sweet kernel, and that mature about three days earlier.

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