Gulfcrest

Gulfcrest

Peach tree named “Gulfcrest”

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 10, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 26, 2022. This patent earned 74 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14685, the photograph of Gulfcrest printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14685, 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

‘Gulfcrest’ is a new and distinct variety of peach tree which has a moderate winter chilling requirement of approximately 525 chill units. The tree is of large size, is highly vigorous with a semi-spreading growth habit. The tree has showy pink flowers and reniform leaf glands. Trees of ‘Gulfcrest’ bear self-fertile flowers and regularly bear heavy annual crops which are large for the moderately early ripening season. Fruit at harvest have yellow, clingstone, non-melting flesh. Fruit are uniformly firm, attractive, substantially symmetrical shape, and have an attractive normally 90 to 95% red skin with moderately fine red stripes from tip to shoulder. The fruit ripens 4 to 5 days after ‘Flordacrest’ in early May at Attapulgus, Ga.

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We claim: 1. A new and distinct peach tree variety as illustrated and described, characterized by a moderate chilling requirement, and bearing early-ripening fruit with firm, yellow and non-melting flesh of high eating quality and an attractive, high percentage red skin color with fruit ripening in mid-May or 4 to 5 days after ‘Flordacrest’ at Attapulgus, Ga.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14685 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

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