US Plant Patent PP10549
FA 80
`FA 80` 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
- PP10549
- 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, (Prunus persica) variety 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 17 days later than the `Redhaven` peach. 3. A substantially round fruit with clear yellow flesh and an attractive solid red blush on the most exposed surfaces which suffuses to a relatively indistinct red-on-red stripe on the less exposed surfaces covering 90 to 100% 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 with good hardiness.
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 medium, compact size, vigorous, upright, open, medium density, regular bearing tree, with good resistance to bacterial spot, producing freestone fruits having clear yellow, non-browning flesh and substantially round, firm, 90% blushed red skin color at maturity which occurs 17 days after the maturity of `Redhaven` peach.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10549 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.