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US Plant Patent PP15354

Goldenblush

Apricot tree ‘Goldenblush’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 29, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15354, the photograph of Goldenblush printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15354, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP15354
Filed
December 29, 2003
Granted
November 23, 2004
Expires
December 29, 2023
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca, and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, half-hardy, and medium productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollinization from another early blooming apricot. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during the first week in June, with first picking on Jun. 2, 2003. The fruit is medium in size, orange yellow with a red blush in skin color, freestone in type, orange yellow in flesh color, very firm in texture, and sweet in flavor. The variety is a second generation seedling having ‘Goldensweet’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,932) apricot as the selected seed grandparent and an unnamed seedling as the selected pollen grandparent.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of apricot tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is similar to its selected seed grandparent, ‘Goldensweet’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,932), by producing fruit that is somewhat oblong in shape, medium in size, firm in texture, sweet in flavor, and freestone in type, but is distinguished therefrom by blooming about ten days earlier, by being self-unfruitful, and by producing fruit that has a much higher degree of red blush in the skin color and that matures about fourteen days earlier.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15354 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.