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US Plant Patent PP13040

Candy Red

Peach tree named ‘Candy Red’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 11, 2020. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13040, the photograph of Candy Red printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13040, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP13040
Filed
December 11, 2000
Granted
October 1, 2002
Expires
December 11, 2020
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN

Abstract

The present invention relates to a peach tree, botanical classification Prunus persica cultivar ‘CANDY RED’, and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, and medium productive tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the second week in June, with first picking on Jun. 9, 2000. The fruit is uniformly large in size, very good in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm in texture, yellow in flesh color, and mostly red in skin color. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using ‘Crown Princess’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,070) yellow flesh peach as the selected seed parent and an unnamed white flesh nectarine as the selected pollen parent.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to its selected seed parent, ‘Crown Princess’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,070) peach, by producing large clingstone peaches that are globose in shape, firm in texture, mostly red in skin color and yellow in flesh color, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by having reniform instead of globose glands and by producing fruit that is subacidic instead of acidic in flavor and that ripens about six days later.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13040 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.