US Plant Patent PP20174
Gulfcrimson
Peach tree named ‘Gulfcrimson’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends May 2, 2028.
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
- PP20174
- Filed
- May 2, 2008
- Granted
- July 7, 2009
- Expires
- May 2, 2028
- Assignee
- CHAPARRO JOSE X, BECKMAN THOMAS G, KREWER GERARD W
- Inventor
- CHAPARRO JOSE X; KREWER GERARD W; BECKMAN THOMAS G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, denominated ‘Gulfcrimson’, has a winter chilling requirement estimated at 400 chill units (cu). The tree is medium size, moderately vigorous, and semi-spreading in growth habit. It bears non-showy, pink flowers, and leaves with reniform glands. Trees of ‘Gulfcrimson’ are self-fertile and regularly bear heavy annual crops of early season fruit that are large for its ripening season. Fruit are uniformly firm and yellow with non-melting flesh. Fruit are nearly round, and uniform with substantially symmetrical shape, and have an attractive 80 to 100% red skin. The fruit of ‘Gulfcrimson’ usually ripen with ‘June Gold’ peach in the last half of May at Attapulgus, Ga.
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1. A new and distinct peach tree as illustrated and described, characterized by a moderate chilling requirement, and bearing fruit having firm, yellow and non-melting, clingstone, and smooth textured flesh of high eating quality and an attractive, high percentage red skin with fruit ripening the last half of May, usually with ‘June Gold’, at Attapulgus, Ga.
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