US Plant Patent PP9872
Autumn Snow
Peach tree "Autumn Snow"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 9, 2016. 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
- PP9872
- Filed
- February 9, 1996
- Granted
- April 29, 1997
- Expires
- February 9, 2016
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; ZAIGER GARY N; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach Prunus persica tree; its novelty consists of the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. A heavy and regular bearer of fruit. 2. Fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 3. Bearing large, firm, white flesh, freestone fruit. 4. Fruit with a high degree of attractive orange-red skin color. 5. Fruit with good handling and shiping quality. 6. 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 peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and a productive and regular bearer of large, white flesh, freestone fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality; the new variety is further characterized by having firm flesh with good handling and shipping quality, having a high degree of attractive orange-red skin color, ripening in the late maturity season, approximately 6 to 7 days after Snow Giant Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,085).
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9872 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.