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US Plant Patent PP25298

Pearlicious XXII

Nectarine tree named ‘Pearlicious XXII’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends February 21, 2033.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 13, 2032. This patent earned 70 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP25298, the photograph of Pearlicious XXII printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP25298, 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
PP25298
Filed
December 13, 2012
Granted
February 24, 2015
Expires
February 21, 2033
Assignee
GLEN LOWELL
Inventor
GLEN LOWELL

Abstract

The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, Prunus persica , broadly characterized by a medium size, moderately vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The variety blooms during the mid season and requires about 525 chilling hours. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in late May, with first picking on May 24, 2012. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, globose in shape, semi-freestone in type, firm and melting in texture, white in flesh color, virtually full red in skin color, and a tasty balance of light acid and sugar in flavor.

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 ‘Pearlicious I’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 22,758) nectarine by being self-fertile and producing white flesh nectarines that are nearly full red in skin color, firm in texture, sweet in flavor, and about the same size, but is distinguished therefrom by requiring more chilling hours, by blooming later, by having globose instead of reniform leaf glands, and by producing fruit that is semi-freestone instead of clingstone in type, that has more acid, that has a bitter instead of sweet kernel, and that ripens about three days earlier.

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