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US Plant Patent PP17281

SNOW DUCHESS

Peach tree named ‘SNOW DUCHESS’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 16, 2026. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 20, 2025. This patent earned 58 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17281, the photograph of SNOW DUCHESS printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17281, 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
PP17281
Filed
December 20, 2005
Granted
December 19, 2006
Expires
February 16, 2026
Assignee
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN

Abstract

The present invention relates to a peach tree, Prunus persica , and more particularly to a new and distinct variety characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in the first half of August, with first picking on Aug. 1, 2005. The fruit is uniformly large in size, sub-acidic and sweet in flavor, globose in shape, freestone in type, firm in texture, white with some red streaking in flesh color, and mostly red in skin color. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using ‘Snow Princess’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,570) white flesh peach as the selected seed parent and ‘Crimson Lady’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,953) yellow 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.

1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to its selected pollen parent, ‘Snow Princess’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,570) white flesh peach, by producing peaches that are freestone in type, mostly red in skin color, white with some red streaking in flesh color, firm in texture, and sub-acid in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom by having many more double blossoms and by producing peaches that are comparatively smaller in size, sweeter in flavor, and mature about fifteen days later.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17281 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.