Spring Princess

Spring Princess

Peach tree named ‘Spring Princess’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 20, 2025. 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 PP17750, the photograph of Spring Princess printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17750, 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 peach tree, Prunus persica, and more particularly to a new and distinct variety characterized by a medium size, vigorous, half-hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in late May, with first picking on May 24, 2005. The fruit is very large in size, sweet and acidic in flavor, somewhat oblate in shape, clingstone in type, yellow in flesh color, mostly red in skin color, and melting in texture. The present variety was the result of an open pollinated unnamed peach (unpatented) seedling.

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 ‘Crimson Lady’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,953) peach by producing good tasting fruit that is clingstone in type, mostly red skin color, and yellow in flesh color, but is distinguished therefrom by requiring considerably less chilling hours and by producing fruit that is larger in size, flatter in shape, melting instead of in non-melting in texture, and that matures about eight days earlier.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17750 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

Abstract