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US Plant Patent PP12936

Flavor Treat

Interspecific tree named ‘Flavor Treat’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 3, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 26, 2021. This patent earned 38 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP12936, the photograph of Flavor Treat printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP12936, 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
PP12936
Filed
March 26, 2001
Granted
September 10, 2002
Expires
May 3, 2021
Inventor
ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; 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. Fruit with very good flavor and eating quality. 2. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 3. Fruit with an attractive garnet red skin color. 4. Relatively uniform size fruit throughout the tree. 5. Fruit with firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality. 6. Fruit holding firm on the tree 10 to 14 days after shipping ripe. 7. Fruit ripening in the late maturity season.

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

We claim: 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 productive and regular bearer of large, clingstone fruit with very good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having firm flesh with good storage and shipping quality and in comparison to the fruit of the Flavor Gem Interspecific (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,915), the fruit of the new variety is larger in size, clingstone instead of freestone and is approximately three weeks later in maturity.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12936 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.