US Plant Patent PP5276
Peach tree (Honey Bee)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 27, 2002. 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
- PP5276
- Filed
- December 27, 1982
- Granted
- August 28, 1984
- Expires
- December 27, 2002
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F
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
The new variety of peach tree characterized by its dwarf size (6 to 7 ft.), non-vigorous, dense and spreading in growth, the tree having dense foliage, large showy pink flowers and a regular and productive bearer of large size, early ripening, firm, yellow flesh, freestone fruit with excellent eating quality.
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 by its dwarf size (6 to 7 ft.), having spreading and dense growth with close leaf nodes, attractive foliage, large showy flowers and a productive and regular bearer of early maturing, large, yellow flesh, freestone fruit of excellent eating quality.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5276 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.