UFRoyal

UFRoyal

Nectarine tree named ‘UFRoyal’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 9, 2028.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP20314, the photograph of UFRoyal printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP20314, 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 ‘UFRoyal’, has a low winter chilling requirement estimated at 250 chill units (cu). The tree is medium size and moderately vigorous with a semi-spreading growth habit. It produces showy, pink flowers and small reniform leaf glands. Trees of ‘UFRoyal’ 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 non-melting flesh which are clingstone. Fruit are oval, and uniform with substantially symmetrical shape, and have an attractive 90 to 100% bright red skin. The fruit of ‘UFRoyal’ ripen about 1 week before ‘UFQueen’ nectarine in early May at Gainesville, Fla.

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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 non-melting, clingstone flesh of high eating quality and an attractive, high percentage red skin with fruit ripening in early May or about 1 week before ‘UFQueen’ at Gainesville, Fla.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP20314 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

Abstract