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US Plant Patent PP15557

Klamath

Peach tree named ‘Klamath’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 15, 2023. 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 PP15557, the photograph of Klamath printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15557, 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
PP15557
Filed
December 15, 2003
Granted
February 15, 2005
Expires
December 15, 2023
Inventor
ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of peach tree. The following features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on ‘Nemaguard’ Rootstock (non-patented), grown on Handford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA Hardiness Zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., with standard commercial fruit growing practices, such as pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consist of the following combination of desirable features: 1. Heavy and regular production of large size fruit. 2. Fruit with firm, non-melting flesh suitable for mechanical pitters. 3. Maintains excellent fruit shape after being canned. 4. Relatively uniform fruit maturity throughout the tree. 5. Fruit with good flavor fresh as well as canned. 6. The tree with vigorous, upright growth.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and a regular and productive bearer of large, very firm, non-melting, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit, which after being canned maintains excellent fruit shape, texture and appearance with good flavor and eating quality, and in comparison to the canning variety ‘Andross’ Peach (non-patented), the new variety has firmer flesh, greater resistance to bruising and browning, more attractive appearance after being canned and is 1 to 2 days earlier in maturity.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15557 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.