Nectarine tree (Summer Bright)

Abstract

The present invention relates to a nectarine tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, medium vigor, hardy, very productive and regular bearing teee. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the second week in July, with first picking on July 9, 1988. The fruit is uniformly large in size, clingstone in type, very firm making excellent quality for keeping and shipping, deep red over a reddish orange background in skin color, and both acidic and very sweet in flavor. The variety was developed as the result of a second generation seedling from the selected seed parent, Red Diamond (U.S. Pat. No. P.P. 3,165), and an unnamed nectarine seedling as the selected pollen parent.

We claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct mid-seasonal ripening variety of clingstone nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which most nearly resembles the Summer Diamond (U.S. Pat. No. P.P. 5,654) nectarine variety by producing fruit that is nearly full red in color and very firm in texture, but is distinguished from and an improvement on that variety by having fruit that ripens 5 days earlier, that is clingstone instead of freestone, and that is much sweeter in flavor, a valuable asset in today's marketplace.