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US Plant Patent PP12974

ICE PRINCESS

Peach tree named ‘ICE PRINCESS’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 8, 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 PP12974, the photograph of ICE PRINCESS printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP12974, 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
PP12974
Filed
December 8, 2000
Granted
September 17, 2002
Expires
December 8, 2020
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN

Abstract

The present invention relates to a peach tree, botanical classification Prunus persica cultivar ‘ICE PRINCESS’, and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large size, virgorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the first week in July, with first picking on Jun. 28, 2000. The fruit is uniformly large in size, very good in flavor, globose to oblate in shape, freestone in type, firm in texture, white in flesh color, and mostly red to pink in skin color. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using ‘Diamond Princess’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,066) yellow flesh peach as the selected seed parent and an unnamed white flesh peach 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 most similar to ‘Coral Princess’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 11,199) peach by producing peaches that are white with virtually no red bleeding in flesh color, subacid and sweet in flavor, mostly red in skin color, and ripen approximately the first week in July, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by blooming about seven days earlier and by producing fruit that is larger in size and that is freestone instead of clingstone in type, yet has a stone cavity with virtually no surrounding hollow space.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12974 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.