MSUP8706

MSUP8706

Peach tree named ‘MSUP8706’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 2, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 14, 2025. This patent earned 18 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP18139, the photograph of MSUP8706 printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP18139, 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

A new peach variety, Prunus persica, (hereinafter referred to as the MSUP8706 peach variety), which was developed by Amy Iezzoni and Bill Shane in a breeding program at the Southwest Michigan Research and Extension Center in Benton Harbor, Mich., having the following number of unique and desirable features: 1. A fruit with excellent shipping and storage characteristics. 2. A fruit maturing at the same season as the Loring peach (an unpatented selection). 3. A generally round fruit with freestone, yellow flesh, and an attractive red blush.

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, Prunus persica, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of vigorous, regular bearing tree producing round, freestone fruits with excellent shipping and storage characteristics having with 80% blushed red skin color at maturity which occurs 15 days after the maturity of ‘Redhaven’ (an unpatented selection).

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP18139 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

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