US Plant Patent PP9800
Siesta Gem
Peach tree `Siesta Gem`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 22, 2015. 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
- PP9800
- Filed
- December 22, 1995
- Granted
- February 11, 1997
- Expires
- December 22, 2015
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GARY N; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
The new and distinct variety of peach tree has the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Early maturity of large size fruit. 2. Fruit with an attractive red blush skin. 3. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 4. Producing firm fruit with good storage and shipping quality. 5. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 6. Relatively uniform size of fruit throughout the tree. 7. Vigorous, upright growth.
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, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth, and being a productive and regular bearer of large, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit with good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by being nearly globose in shape, having firm flesh with good storage and shipping abiliy, having an attractive red blush skin, and in comparison to the variety May Crest Peach (U.S. Pat. No. P.P. 4,064) the new variety has heavier production of larger size fruit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9800 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.