Glacier Queen

Glacier Queen

Peach tree named ‘Glacier Queen’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 5, 2032.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 8, 2031. This patent earned 119 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP23868, the photograph of Glacier Queen printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP23868, 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

The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of peach tree, Prunus persica , broadly characterized by a large size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The variety blooms during the early to mid season and requires about 450 chilling hours. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in late August, with first picking on Aug. 24, 2011. The fruit is uniform, very large in size, sub-acidic in flavor, globose in shape, freestone in type, firm and melting in texture, white in flesh color, mostly red in skin color, and good in flavor.

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I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to its seed parent ‘Snow Princess’ peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,570) by producing fruit that is white in flesh color, mostly red in skin color, globose in shape, freestone in type, and sub-acidic in taste, but is distinguished therefrom by having globose instead of reniform leaf glands and by producing fruit that is somewhat larger in size and that matures about twenty days later.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP23868 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

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