US Plant Patent PP4827
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 13, 2000. 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
- PP4827
- Filed
- June 13, 1980
- Granted
- February 23, 1982
- Expires
- June 13, 2000
- Inventor
- TAKANISHI YUTAKA T
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A peach tree which is large, vigorous, spreading, open, vase-formed, hardy, foliated with large, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a coarsely serrate margin and alternate, reniform glands, bears medium size, obtuse, plump flower buds, blooms early with large, pink flowers, and is a regular and productive bearer of early-ripening, medium size, clingstone fruit of globose form with unequal sides, the fruit--somewhat variable in both size and form--having yellow flesh, yellow skin substantially overspread with red in maturity, and a large stone.
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 variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is generally similar in tree and fruit to the Springcrest variety, but distinctively characterized, in comparison, by fruit which ripens, for harvest, seven to ten days earlier.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4827 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.