Nectarine tree, "Red Lion"

Abstract

A new variety of nectarine tree broadly characterized by its general resemblance to that of the Red Jim (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,518) variety, but which bears fruit having a shallow, inconspicuous suture which colors an intense red substantially simultaneously and evenly with adjacent skin portions.

Having thus described our new variety of nectarine tree, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Plant Letters Patent is: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree substantially as illustrated and described, bearing fruit which mature approximately with that of the Red Jim (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,518) which it most nearly resembles, in its regular and productive bearing of medium-sized, clingstone fruit, but from which it is distinguished as to novelty by its fruit having a more spherical shape with a shallow, virtually inconspicuous suture coloring substantially simultaneously and evenly with the skin of the fruit as the fruit matures and by its leaves whose upper surfaces have a more vivid and darker green color.