US Plant Patent PP10547
FA 59
`FA 59` 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
- PP10547
- 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 59` 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 very large, substantially round fruit with clear yellow flesh and very attractive orange-red stripe over a red blush covering 80% of the fruit at maturity. 2. A fruit maturing 20 days later that the `Redhaven` peach. 3. A fruit with flesh that does not brown when cut. 4. A fruit with excellent shipping and storage qualities. 5. A fruit that ripens with multiple pickings and produces heavy tonnage per acre.
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 a large size, very vigorous, upright, open, medium density, heavy bearing tree, with good resistance to bacterial spot, producing freestone fruits having clear yellow, non-browning flesh and substantially round, firm, very large, 80% mottled striped orange-red skin color at maturity which occurs 17 days after the maturity of `Redhaven` peach.
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