Flordabest

Flordabest

Peach tree named ‘Flordabest’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 25, 2028.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 9, 2028. This patent earned 16 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP20294, the photograph of Flordabest printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP20294, 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 ‘Flordabest’, has a low winter chilling requirement estimated at 250 chill units (cu). The tree is of medium size, has a moderate vigorous and semi-upright growth habit. It has non-showy, pink flowers, and leaves with reniform glands. Trees of ‘Flordabest’ 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-clingstone. Fruit are oval, and uniform with substantially symmetrical shape, and have an attractive 90 to 100% bright red skin. The fruit of ‘Flordabest’ ripens about 7 to 10 days before ‘TropicBeauty’ peach in early May at Gainesville, Fla.

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1. A new and distinct peach tree as illustrated and described, characterized by a low chilling requirement, and bearing fruit having firm, yellow, sweet, and melting, semi-clingstone flesh of high eating quality and an attractive, high percentage red skin with fruit ripening in early May or about 7 to 10 days before ‘TropicBeauty’ at Gainesville, Fla.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP20294 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

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