US Plant Patent PP6828

Harmon

Peach tree

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 10, 2008. 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: PP6828
Filed: March 10, 1988
Granted: June 6, 1989
Expires: March 10, 2008

Abstract

There is disclosed a peach variety which originated as a seedling of Rio Oso Gem, with pollen from an unknown variety, resulting in production of a peach tree producing a late maturing yellow-fleshed, freestone peach that bears large to very large, round, globose, firm fruit having an attractive deep red skin overcolor, with flesh that is golden yellow in color, slow softening with a superior sweet and delicious flavor, the trees being moderately large, vigorous, and regularly productive.

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 yellow freestone peach, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized as to novelty by a vigorous growth habit, regular bearing and the ability to yield large to very large, firm, round, globose, deep to bright red color, slow softening fruit, having a superior sweet flavor which commonly ripens three to four days after the Rio Oso Gem and Encore varieties.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6828 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.