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US Plant Patent PP25828

Pearlicious XVI

Nectarine tree named ‘Pearlicious XVI’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 5, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 16, 2033. This patent earned 20 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP25828, the photograph of Pearlicious XVI printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP25828, 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
PP25828
Filed
December 16, 2013
Granted
August 25, 2015
Expires
January 5, 2034
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 small size, moderately vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The variety has large blossoms and blooms in the mid season, requiring about 550 chilling hours. The leaves are large and have globose glands. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in mid August, with first picking on Aug. 10, 2013. The fruit is large in size, globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm and melting in texture, white in flesh color, mostly red in skin color, and very sweet in flavor, and the kernel has a bitter taste.

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, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Snow Pearl’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 14,695) nectarine by having globose leaf glands, by having a large blossom that blooms in the mid season, by requiring about 550 chilling hours, by being self-fertile, and by producing white flesh clingstone nectarines that are firm and mostly red in skin color, but is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit that is larger in size, that matures about seven days earlier, that is sweeter, and that has a bitter kernel instead of sweet.

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