Nectarine tree named ‘Pearl Time’

Abstract

The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, Prunus persica, broadly characterized by a medium size, moderately vigorous, half-hardy, self-fertile, very productive and regular bearing tree. The variety blooms during the early to mid season and requires about 500 chilling hours. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in mid to late June, with first picking on Jun. 22, 2010. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, globose in shape, freestone in type, firm and melting in texture, white in flesh color, mostly red in skin color, and sub-acid and very sweet in flavor.

1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Spring Pearl’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 16,034) nectarine by producing fruit that is white in flesh color, almost full red in skin color, firm in texture, sub-acidic in flavor, and that matures in mid to late June, but is distinguished therefrom by requiring less chilling hours, by blooming earlier, by having globose instead of reniform leaf glands, and by producing fruit that is freestone instead of clingstone in type, that is sweeter in flavor, and that matures about five days earlier.