US Plant Patent PP11568
Snowfall
Peach tree named `Snowfall`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 15, 2018. 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP11568
- Filed
- December 15, 1998
- Granted
- October 17, 2000
- Expires
- December 15, 2018
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree (Prunus persica), the features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on nemaguard rootstock, grown on Hanford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA Hardiness zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., and with standard commercial cultural fruit growing practices, such as, pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consists of the following unique combination of features that are desirable in a new variety: 1. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 2. Fruit maturing in the late maturity season. 3. Large, firm, white flesh, freestone fruit. 4. Fruit with good storage and shipping quality. 5. Fruit that wll remain firm on the tree for approximately 2 weeks after maturity (shipping ripe). 6. Fruit having a sweet, sub-acid taste with very good flavor and eating quality. 7. Vigorous, upright growth.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth; and being a productive and regular bearer of large, firm, white flesh, freestone fruit with mild, sweet, sub-acid taste and very good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having firm flesh, good storage and shipping quality and ripening in the later maturity season, approximately 7 to 10 days later than the late maturing September Snow Peach (U.S.
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