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US Plant Patent PP17828

Candy Stripe

Interspecific tree named ‘Candy Stripe’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 30, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 6, 2025. This patent earned 24 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17828, the photograph of Candy Stripe printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17828, 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
PP17828
Filed
December 6, 2005
Granted
June 26, 2007
Expires
December 30, 2025
Assignee
GARDNER LEITH MARIE, ZAIGER GARY NEIL, ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Inventor
ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of interspecific tree. The following features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on ‘Citation’ Rootstock (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,112), grown on Handford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA Hardiness Zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., with standard commercial fruit growing practices, such as pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consist of the following combination of desirable features: 1. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 2. Fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 3. Fruit holding firm on the tree 3 weeks after maturity (shipping ripe). 4. Relatively uniform size fruit throughout the tree. 5. Fruit with good handling and storage quality. 6. Fruit with a good balance between acid and sugar with an average Brix of 16.3°.

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

1. A new and distinct variety of interspecific tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and being a regular and productive bearer of medium size, clingstone fruit with firm flesh, excellent flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by holding firm on the tree three weeks after maturity (shipping ripe), is relatively uniform in size throughout the tree, has an attractive yellow-red skin color with the flesh having a good balance between acid and sugar.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17828 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.