US Plant Patent PP8237

Tucker

Peach tree named Tucker's

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 22, 2011. 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: PP8237
Filed: May 22, 1991
Granted: May 25, 1993
Expires: May 22, 2011

Abstract

A peach tree which is of medium size, open density, vigorous, spreading upright, foliated with medium size, lanceolate, abruptly pointed leaves having a serrulate margin, both globose and reniform glands and the stipules are long on mature foliage, blooms early to medium with a large size which is conical in shape and flattening at full bloom, showing, pink large flowers, and a very productive bearer of average, uniform, oblate very rounded, very late ripening freestone fruit having golden yellow with red blush skin, and yellow to cherub orient pink flesh, the surface of the pit cavity being red. The fruit ripens substantially after the last commercial variety presently grown.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct very late ripening variety of a freestone peach tree having flesh of the yellow variety substantially as herein shown and described, having fruit of good to high, excellent sugar content, being of medium size, yellow in color with a red blush, being firm and not melting, and by having a desirable oblate shape, where the peach ripens substantially after other late harvest existing commercial varieties, typically in later October and in November.

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