US Plant Patent PP11990
Flavorfall
Interspecific tree named ‘Flavorfall’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 8, 2019. 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
- PP11990
- Filed
- February 8, 1999
- Granted
- July 17, 2001
- Expires
- February 8, 2019
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of interspecific tree ( Prunus salicina× ( Prunus salicina×Prunus armeniaca )); the features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on Nemaguard rootstock (unpatented), grown on Hanford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA Hardiness Zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., and with standard commercial cultural fruit growing practices, such as pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consists of the following unique combination of features that are desirable in a new interspecific tree: 1. Heavy and regular production of large size fruit. 2. Fruit ripening in the late maturity season. 3. Fruit with firm flesh, good storage and shipping quality. 4. Fruit with high soluble solids, averaging 17.4° Brix. 5. Relatively uniform size of fruit throughout the tree. 6. Fruit holding firm on the tree 14 to 18 days after maturity (shipping ripe). 7. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 8. Fruit with an attractive garnet red skin color. 9. Vigorous, upright growth.
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 Prunus Sp. tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and a productive and regular bearer of large, late maturing, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit with good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having firm flesh, good shipping and storage quality, holding firm on the tree 14 to 18 days after maturity (shipping ripe), having an attractive garnet red skin color and, in comparison to the fruit of late maturing interspecific tree Flavorich (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,546), the fruit of the present variety is approximately 20 days later in maturity.
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