Neptune V

Neptune V

Peach tree named ‘Neptune V’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 7, 2028.

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 PP20117, the photograph of Neptune V printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP20117, 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

The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of peach tree, Prunus persica, broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The variety blooms during the mid season and requires about 625 chilling hours. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in mid June, with first picking on Jun. 16, 2007. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, sub-acidic and sweet in flavor, very oblate in shape, freestone in type, firm and melting in texture, yellow in flesh color, and mostly red in skin color.

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1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is similar to its pollen parent, ‘Neptune I’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 18,816) peach by producing peaches that are very oblate in shape, firm, freestone in type, and mostly red in skin color, but is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit that is sweeter in flavor, that is yellow instead of white in flesh color, and that matures about twenty-five days earlier.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP20117 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

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Abstract