Sunbest

Sunbest

Nectarine tree named ‘Sunbest’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 25, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 7, 2021. This patent earned 140 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15062, the photograph of Sunbest printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15062, 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.

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, denominated ‘Sunbest’, has a low winter chilling requirement estimated at 225 chill units (cu). The tree is of medium size, has a moderate vigorous and upright growth habit. It has non-showy, pink flowers and leaf glands are small, with reniform shape. Trees of ‘Sunbest’ are self-fertile and regularly bear heavy annual crops of early season fruit that are large for its ripening season. Fruit are uniformly firm and yellow with melting flesh which are semi-freestone. Fruit are oval, and uniform with substantially symmetrical shape, and have an attractive 90 to 100% bright red skin. The fruit of ‘Sunbest’ ripens about 3 to 5 days before ‘Sunraycer’ nectarine in early May at Gainesville, Fla.

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I claim: 1. A new and distinct nectarine tree variety as illustrated and described, characterized by a low chilling requirement, and bearing fruit having firm, yellow and melting, semi-freestone flesh of high eating quality and an attractive, high percentage red skin with fruit ripening in early May or about 3 to 5 days before ‘Sunraycer’ at Gainesville, Fla.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15062 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

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