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US Plant Patent PP34402

Pearlicious XV

Nectarine tree named ‘Pearlicious XV’

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 PP34402, the photograph of Pearlicious XV printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP34402, 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
PP34402
Filed
December 17, 2021
Granted
July 5, 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 medium size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The variety blooms during the mid season and requires about 550 chilling hours. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in mid to late August, with first picking on Aug. 18, 2021. The fruit is uniform, large in size, sub-acidic and very sweet in flavor, globose with slight asymmetry in shape, clingstone in type, firm in texture, white in flesh color, dark red over greenish yellow background in skin color, and has a sweet 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 named ‘Pearlicious XV’, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Pearlicious XVI’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 25,828) nectarine by being self-fertile, by requiring a similar amount of chilling hours, by blooming in the mid season, by having globose leaf glands, and by producing nectarines that are white in flesh color, that are clingstone in type, that are firm in texture, that are sub-acidic in flavor, and that ripen in August, but is distinguished therefrom by producing nectarines that are slightly larger in size, that are a fuller and darker red in primary skin color, that harvest about five days later, and that have a sweet instead of bitter tasting kernel.

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