US Plant Patent PP4985
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 27, 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
- PP4985
- Filed
- July 27, 1981
- Granted
- February 22, 1983
- Expires
- July 27, 2001
- Assignee
- UNIV CALIFORNIA
- Inventor
- HESSE CLARON O
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, and hardy under California conditions; foliated with large, lanceolate leaves having an acuminate apex, a crenate margin, a vigorous petiole of medium length and thickness, and globose, light green, usually opposite glands positioned at base of leaf blade; flowers from buds of medium size and length, pointed, free from stem, and moderately pubescent; the flowers blooming early and being of medium size, non-showy, and having pink-rose petals slightly lighter at base; and is a regular and productive bearer of uniform, medium size, symmetrical, semi-freestone, early-ripening fruit globose in axial aspect and globose to slightly ovate in ventral suture aspect, the fruit having white to cream color flesh, and skin having a yellow ground color substantially blushed with red.
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, characterized by white-flesh, semi-freestone fruit which bears general resemblance to the fruit of the Springtime but ripens approximately three days earlier, is slightly larger in size with a less pronounced tip, and has more red blush color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4985 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.