US Plant Patent PP6472
Amparo
Peach tree ("Amparo")
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 13, 2007. 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
- PP6472
- Filed
- April 13, 1987
- Granted
- December 20, 1988
- Expires
- April 13, 2007
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; ZAIGER GARY N; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree which has the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Vigorous upright growth. 2. Heavy and regular bearer of yellow flesh, freestone fruit. 3. Fruit being large and nearly uniform in size throughout the tree. 4. The fruit having very firm flesh with very good storage and shipping quality. 5. Fruit holding firm on tree for 7-10 days after shipping ripe. 6. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 7. Fruit having a high degree of attractive red skin color.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and a productive and regular bearer of very firm, yellow flesh, freestone fruit with good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by being nearly uniform in size throughout the tree, holding firm on the tree for 7-10 days after shipping ripe, having very good shipping and storage quality and having a high degree of attractive red skin color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6472 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.