US Plant Patent PP5839
Primecrest
Peach tree (Primecrest)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 24, 2004. 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
- PP5839
- Filed
- December 24, 1984
- Granted
- December 23, 1986
- Expires
- December 24, 2004
- Assignee
- R L CASTANG SA
- Inventor
- CARBONNEIL GEORGES
Abstract
A peach tree which is of medium size and vigor, spreading, open, vase form, and half-hardy; foliated with large, lanceolate, acuminate leaves having a serrate margin, long, medium-thick petiole, and alternate, medium to small, globose, yellowish-green glands positioned on the petiole; blooms early from hardy, large, medium size, plump, appressed-to-free flower buds; the flowers being medium size, showy, and white to slightly pink in color; and is a regular and very productive bearer of uniform, medium size, symmetrical, globose, semi-freestone fruit having bright orange-yellow skin substantially overspread with red, and yellow flesh.
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 in particular by the regular and very productive bearing of semi-freestone fruit which--while similar to the Springcrest in form, color, and size--ripens approximately two and one-half weeks earlier than the Springcrest.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5839 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.