Avocado tree named ‘Harvest’

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2002-03-14

2003-10-14

Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)

Plants

Fruit

Avocado

Plant Patent

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PP014238

ABSTRACT:

Botanical/commercial classification:
Perssea americana
Mill./Avocado Tree.
Varietal denomination: cv. ‘N4(-)5’.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to new and distinct variety of Avocado tree that is named ‘N4(-)5’.
The seed that produced the new variety of the present invention was collected in 1985 from open-pollinated avocado trees of the ‘Gwen’ variety U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,298) growing at Riverside and Irvine, Calif. The exact pollen parent is unknown. Seeds were planted in a test planting area at Ventura County, Calif. to produce avocado seedings in the spring of 1986. The resulting seedling plants were observed and studied and a single plant of the new variety was discovered. Had the new variety not been discovered and carefully preserved it would have been lost to mankind. During about 1992 at the Southcoast Research and Extension Center of the University of California located at Irvine, Calif., the new variety was first top worked by grafting on
Persea americana
seedlings. This and subsequent asexual propagation has confirmed that the new variety is stable and that the progeny are formed true to type.
It was found that the new variety of the present invention exhibits the following combination of characteristics:
(a) exhibits an open spreading growth habit,
(b) exhibits an alternate bearing character similar to that of the ‘Hass’ variety,
(c) forms inverted high spheroid-shaped generally black-skinned fruit that is well distributed around the tree which is larger than that of the ‘Hass’ variety, matures later than the fruit of the ‘Hass’ variety, and has yellow-green flesh of good eating quality when fully ripe that is free of obvious fibers, and
(d) forms generally oval-shaped leaves.
The new ‘N4(-)5’ variety can be distinguished from all previously known avocado varieties including the ‘Hass’ variety, the ‘Gwen’ variety, the ‘Sir Prize’ variety U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,709), the ‘Lamb Hass’ variety U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,753), and the ‘3-29-5’ variety (U.S. Plant patent application No. 10/096,658, filed Mar. 14, 2002) in view of its distinctive combination of characteristics.
The new ‘N4(-)5’ variety is believed to be well suited for the production of quality avocados under commercial growing conditions.

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