US Plant Patent PP4970
A3-10
Peach tree (A3-10)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 20, 2001. 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
- PP4970
- Filed
- July 20, 1981
- Granted
- January 4, 1983
- Expires
- July 20, 2001
- Inventor
- MERRILL GRANT; MERRILL EXECUTRIX BY LUCILE B
Abstract
A peach tree which is large, vigorous, and spreading; foliated with large, lanceolate leaves having a finely serrate margin, a petiole of medium length and thickness, and medium size, reniform glands; blooms from medium size, conic, plump, pubescent buds; the flowers, medium in blooming period compared with other varieties, being of medium size, and pink; and is a regular and very productive bearer of medium but variable size, round truncate, clingstone fruit having yellow skin substantially overspread with red, yellow flesh mottled with red adjacent the skin, and an amber stone.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which has general similarity in tree to the Gemfree but bears clingstone fruit which, in particular comparison with the fruit of the Gemfree, is more round in shape and has a darker red blush color of the skin; the fruit ripening approximately with or slightly later than the fruit of the Gemfree.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4970 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.