Nectarine tree named `Candy Sweet`

Abstract

The present invention relates to a nectarine tree, Prunus persica, and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large size, vigorous, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the last week in June, with first picking on Jun. 24, 1998. The fruit is uniformly large in size, subacidic and sweet in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, very firm and crispy in texture, and mostly red in skin color. The variety was a first generation cross using `Red Diamond` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,165) nectarine as the seed parent and an unnamed yellow flesh nectarine seedling as the selected pollen parent.

We claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to its seed parent, the `Red Diamond` (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,165), by producing yellow flesh nectarines that are mostly red in skin color, very firm in texture, and that ripen the last week in June, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by having a showy instead of nonshowy blossom and by producing fruit that is much sweeter in flavor, that is clingstone instead of freestone, and that is larger in size.