US Plant Patent PP4317
P-455
Dwarf peach tree (54-P-455)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 6, 1998. 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4317
- Filed
- January 6, 1978
- Granted
- October 17, 1978
- Expires
- January 6, 1998
- Inventor
- ANDERSON FREDERIC W
Abstract
A genetically dwarf peach tree which is vigorous, spreading, and dense in growth with stocky, shaggy trunk and branches; foliated with large, acuminate, abruptly pointed leaves having a crenate, finely serrate margin, short petiole, and alternate, globose glands; and a regular and very productive bearer of large, uniform, symmetrical, globose, freestone fruit having yellow skin partially overspread with red, and yellow flesh which is firm, crisp, and meaty.
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 peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which, while having the desirable characteristics of the full-size Lovell, is-- in comparison-- genetically dwarf.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4317 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.