US Plant Patent PP11695
Regal Pearl
Nectarine tree named `Regal Pearl`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 13, 2019. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
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
- PP11695
- Filed
- January 13, 1999
- Granted
- December 12, 2000
- Expires
- January 13, 2019
- Inventor
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN; BRADFORD NORMAN G
Abstract
The present invention relates to a nectarine tree, Prunus persica, and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large size, vigorous, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the third week in August, with first picking on Aug. 16, 1998. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, subacidic and sweet in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, very firm and crisp in texture, and mostly red in skin color. The variety was a first generation cross using `Red Glen` (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,193) nectarine as the seed parent and an unnamed white flesh nectarine seedling as the selected pollen parent.
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 the `Fire Pearl` (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,358) nectarine by producing white flesh nectarines that are subacidic in flavor, clingstone in type, and mostly red in skin color, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by having reniform glands instead of globose and by producing fruit that ripens about two weeks later.
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