US Plant Patent PP5709
Rs-2
Peach tree (Rs-2)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 19, 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
- PP5709
- Filed
- October 19, 1984
- Granted
- April 8, 1986
- Expires
- October 19, 2004
- Assignee
- RICHLAND SALES CO
- Inventor
- MICHAELIAN ALBERT H
Abstract
A peach tree which is of medium size, vigorous, upright, dense, round-topped, and hardy; foliated with large, oval-lanceolate, abruptly pointed leaves having a glandular, finely serrate margin, a petiole of medium length and thickness, and medium size, alternate, green, reniform glands; blooms early with medium size, pink flowers whose buds are hardy, free, and of medium size and length; and is a regular and very productive bearer of uniform, medium size, broadly compressed, globose, freestone, early-ripening fruit having yellow skin blushed with red, and yellow flesh.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, particularly characterized by fruit which--while generally similar to the May Crest--has a harvest period about four to five days earlier, and is of larger size, more uniform, and with slightly more red blush.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5709 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.