US Plant Patent PP6759
Flavor Queen
Peach tree, "Flavor Queen"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 28, 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
- PP6759
- Filed
- December 28, 1987
- Granted
- April 25, 1989
- Expires
- December 28, 2007
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Peach tree which is somewhat remotely similar to the Gemfree Peach Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,409) with which it is most closely related in its date of harvest, but from which it is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately June 4 through June 10 and which further produces a medium sized, globose shapede fruit having a semi-clingstone nature and which exhibits a deep red to a lighter orange-red skin color, a golden yellow colored flesh and has an excellent flavor.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of peach tree, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described which is somewhat remotely similar to the Gemfree Peach Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,409) which matures in approximately the same season but from which it is distinguished therefrom and characterized as to novelty by producing fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting approximately June 4 through June 10 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California and which additionally produces medium sized, globose shaped fruit which have a semi-clingstone nature, a deep red to lighter orange-red skin color, and a flesh color which is golden yellow; the fruit of the subject variety having an excellent flavor, and noteworthy aroma.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6759 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.