US Plant Patent PP4903
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 10, 2001. 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
- PP4903
- Filed
- April 10, 1981
- Granted
- October 26, 1982
- Expires
- April 10, 2001
- Assignee
- SUPERIOR FARMING CO
- Inventor
- WEINBERGER JOHN H
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 of medium size and vigor, upright-spreading, dense, and round-topped; foliated with medium size, ovate, lanceolate and acutely pointed leaves having a crenate margin, small, green, irregularly opposite, globose glands, and a petiole medium in length and thickness; flowers from plump, appressed, pubescent flower buds of medium size and length; the flowers, of medium season, being large and pink; and the tree is a regular and productive bearer of uniform, medium size, symmetrical, globose, freestone fruit having yellow skin substantially overspread and flushed with medium light red, yellow flesh, and a medium size, elliptical, light buff 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, particularly characterized by the bearing of uniform, medium size, symmetrical, globose, freestone fruit having yellow skin blushed with medium light red, and yellow flesh; the fruit ripening about a week later than Springcrest, and about three weeks earlier than Flavorcrest.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4903 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.