FA 42

FA 42

Peach tree named ‘FA 42’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 3, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 2, 2021. This patent earned 152 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14439, the photograph of FA 42 printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14439, 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.

Abstract

A new peach variety, Prunus persica, (hereinafter referred to as ‘FA 42 peach’) which was developed in 1981 by Annette and Randy Bjorge in a breeding program at Fruit Acres Farms in Coloma, Mich., having the following combination of unique and desirable features: 1. A substantially large, round fruit with an attractive bright red blush covering 75 to 80% of the fruit at maturity. 2. A fruit maturing late in the season, 7 days after ‘Fayette’ or 45 days after ‘Redhaven’. 3. A fruit with excellent storage and shipping qualities. 4. A fruit with flesh that does not brown when cut.

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, Prunus persica, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of vigorous, regular bearing tree producing freestone fruits having with non-browning flesh and large, round, firm fruits with 75 to 80% blushed red skin color at maturity which occurs 45 days after the maturity of ‘Redhaven’ peach.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14439 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

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Abstract