Nectarine tree (Diamond Ray)

Abstract

The present invention relates to a nectarine tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large size, vigorous, hardy, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the first week in July, with first picking on Jul. 1, 1983. The fruit is uniformly large in size, excellent in flavor, attractively globose in shape, clingstone in type, very firm in texture, and full red in skin color. The variety was developed as a hybridized seedling from Red Diamond (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,165), as the selected seed parent, and an unnamed seedling as the selected pollen parent.

We claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is most similar to the Summer Bright nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,049), by producing clingstone fruit that is full red in skin color, sweet and flavorful in taste, and extremely firm in texture, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by having a large blossom instead of small and by producing fruit that ripens approximately twelve days earlier and has substantially less red streaking in the flesh.