US Plant Patent PP10545
FA 47
`FA 47` peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 28, 2016. 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
- PP10545
- Filed
- October 28, 1996
- Granted
- August 11, 1998
- Expires
- October 28, 2016
- Assignee
- INT PLANT MANAGEMENT
- Inventor
- BJORGE ANNETTE; BJORGE RANDY
Abstract
A new peach variety, Prunus persica, (hereinafter referred to as the `FA 47` peach tree) which was developed by Annette and Randy Bjorge in a breeding program at Fruit Acres Farm in Coloma, Mich., having the following combination of unique and desirable features: 1. A fruit with excellent shipping and storage qualities. 2. A fruit maturing 7 days before the `Redhaven` peach. 3. A substantially round fruit with clear yellow flesh and an attractive orange-red stripe coloration covering 75% of the fruit at maturity. 4. A fruit with flesh that does not brown when it is cut. 5. A tree and fruit with good resistance to Bacterial Spot. 6. A tree and blossom that is very hardy.
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, Prunus persica, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of vigorous, weeping, open, medium density, regular bearing tree, with resistance to bacterial spot, producing semi-freestone fruits having yellow, non-browning flesh and substantially round, firm, 95% striped orange-red skin color at maturity which occurs 7 days before `Redhaven` peach.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10545 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.