US Plant Patent PP6387
Starcrest
Peach tree named Starcrest
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 12, 2007. 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
- PP6387
- Filed
- January 12, 1987
- Granted
- November 8, 1988
- Expires
- January 12, 2007
- Assignee
- G I E STAR FRUITS
- Inventor
- CHAPUS PAUL; VEAUVY HUBERT
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree, varietal name Starcrest, is a branch mutation of a Springcrest peach. The new variety is characterized by its bright red blush or striped red on yellow-amber brown color fruit, having medium yellow flesh with a yellow pit well. The fruit is symmetrical and round, juicy, has good eating, keeping and shipping qualities and is suitable for fresh market.
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 as described, illustrated and identified by the characteristics enumerated above, the fruit of which is juicy with a medium aroma, has a medium yellow color, provides good eating, keeping and shipping qualities and is useful for fresh market.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6387 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.