UFSun

UFSun

Peach tree named ‘UFSun’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 27, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 15, 2023. This patent earned 12 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14764, the photograph of UFSun printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14764, 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

‘UFSun’ is a new and distinct variety of peach tree which has a winter chilling requirement of approximately 100 to 150 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 ‘UFSun’ bear heavy annual crops of early season fruit which are medium size 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 50 to 60% red skin with darker red stripes. The fruit ripens about 80 to 85 days from bloom, with ‘Flordaprince’, and in late April at Immokalee and Gainesville, Fla.

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We claim: 1. A new and distinct peach tree as illustrated and described, characterized by a low chilling requirement, and bearing early mid-season fruit having firm, yellow and non-melting flesh of high eating quality, and an attractive, 50% red over deep yellow ground color on skin of fruit ripening in late April with ‘Flordaprince’ at Immokalee and Gainesville, Fla.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14764 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

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