UFBeauty

UFBeauty

Peach tree named ‘UFBeauty’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 18, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 29, 2022. This patent earned 109 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14784, the photograph of UFBeauty printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14784, 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

‘UFBeauty’ is a new and distinct variety of peach tree which has a winter chilling requirement ofapproximately 200 chill units (cu). The tree is large size, highly vigorous with a semi-spreading growth habit, and bears showy pink flowers. Glands are small and reniform in shape and isolated to the basal portions of leaves. Trees of ‘UFBeauty’ bear heavy annual crops of early mid-season fruit which are medium large for its ripening season. Fruit have firm, yellow, non-melting flesh which is clingstone. Fruit are uniform, attractive, substantially symmetrical shape, and have an attractive 90 to 100% red skin with darker red stripes. The fruit ripens 3 to 4 days after the beginning of ‘UFGold’ in early May at Gainesville, Fla.

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We claim: 1. A new and distinct peach tree variety as illustrated and described, characterized by a mid-chilling requirement, and bearing early mid-season fruit having firm, yellow and non-melting flesh of high eating quality, and an attractive, near full red skin on fruit ripening in early May with ‘UFGold’ at Gainesville, Fla.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14784 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

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