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US Plant Patent PP11952

Ruby Bright

Nectarine tree named ‘Ruby Bright’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 27, 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
PP11952
Filed
December 27, 1999
Granted
June 19, 2001
Expires
December 27, 2019
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN

Abstract

The present invention relates to a nectarine tree, Prunus persica, and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium sized, vigorous, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the second week in July, with first picking on Jul. 15, 1999. The fruit is uniformly large in size, acidic and sweet in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm and crisp in texture, and fully 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 Spring Bright (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,507) as the selected pollen parent.

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 its pollen parent Spring Bright (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,507) nectarine, by producing fruit that is full red in skin color, yellow in flesh color, clingstone in type and firm in texture, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by having reniform instead of globose glands and by producing fruit that matures about ten days later.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11952 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.