US Plant Patent PP9939
P.F. 27A
Peach tree `P.F. 27A`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 18, 2015. 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
- PP9939
- Filed
- December 18, 1995
- Granted
- July 1, 1997
- Expires
- December 18, 2015
- Assignee
- FRIDAY PAUL J
- Inventor
- FRIDAY PAUL JAN
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach, Prunus persica having the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. The new and distinct variety of peach tree is of moderate upright growth and a regular and productive bearer of peaches. 2. Producing a very firm fruit having a resilient flesh texture. 3. Blossoms are non-showy when in full bloom. 4. A substantially spherical fruit with an attractive red skin coloring over a majority of the surface. 5. Late maturing fruit of good taste. 6. A late maturing fruit of good storage and shelf life.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described as a medium size tree with a distinct short stubby growth pattern, a consistent bearer of highly colored, large fruit for the very late peach growing season, said fruit at maturity being of spherical shape with firm flesh and red skin color covering 60% to 80% of the fruit, said maturity occurring about the same date as the Fayette peach.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9939 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.