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US Plant Patent PP14367

P.F. Lucky 24B

Peach tree named ‘P.F. Lucky 24B’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 5, 2022. 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 PP14367, the photograph of P.F. Lucky 24B printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14367, 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
PP14367
Filed
March 5, 2002
Granted
December 16, 2003
Expires
March 5, 2022
Inventor
FRIDAY PAUL JAN

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of peach, Prunus persica, tree having the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Producing a very firm fruit that can best be described as “crunchy” when bitten into when firm ripe. 2. The limbs of the tree natura1ly grow at wide angles creating a wide-spreading tree. 3. A fruit with a smooth raised suture that remains firm as does the whole fruit. 4. A late maturing, highly colored, peach cultivar that matures a few days before the old standard variety, ‘Cresthaven’ (unpatented), and which hangs on the tree for many days, staying extremely firm.

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

What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14367 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.