US Plant Patent PP8978
P.F. 15A peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 29, 2013. 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
- PP8978
- Filed
- November 29, 1993
- Granted
- November 15, 1994
- Expires
- November 29, 2013
- Inventor
- FRIDAY PAUL J
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree having the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Producing a very firm fruit having a resilient flesh texture. 2. Blossoms are non-showy when in full bloom. 3. A substantially spheriodal fruit with yellow flesh having red mottling. 4. Early maturing fruit of good taste. 5. A mid-season peach variety which matures after Redhaven and which has good storage and shelf life. 6. A stone having an arcuate base.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described as large size, vigorous and upright in growth and a regular and productive bearer of medium large size, yellow flesh with some red mottling, freestone fruit with good flavor and eating quality; and being further characterized by a partially showy blossom about 3/4" diameter when in full bloom, said fruit at maturity being of substantially spheroidal shape with firm flesh and a red skin color covering 80% of the fruit and having a moderately pronounced suture, said maturity occurring about 9 days after maturity of the Redhaven peach.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8978 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.