Viking Pearl

Viking Pearl

Nectarine tree named ‘Viking Pearl’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 2, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 29, 2023. This patent earned 278 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16539, the photograph of Viking Pearl printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16539, 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

The present invention relates to a nectarine tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the last week in July, with first picking on Jul. 26, 2003. The fruit is uniformly large in size, excellent in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, very firm in texture, white in flesh color, and red in skin color. The variety was developed as an open pollinated seedling from an unnamed white flesh nectarine.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Fire Pearl’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,358) nectarine by producing nectarines that are clingstone in type, globose in shape, nearly full red in skin color, white in flesh color, very firm in texture, and sub-acidic and sweet in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom by having a small blossom instead of a large showy blossom and by producing fruit that is much larger in size.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16539 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

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