US Plant Patent PP10175
Snow Beauty
Peach tree `Snow Beauty`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 30, 2016. 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
- PP10175
- Filed
- August 30, 1996
- Granted
- January 6, 1998
- Expires
- August 30, 2016
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
The new and distinct variety of peach Prunus persica tree has the following combination of unique and desirable features: 1. Heavy and regular bearer of large size fruit. 2. Fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 3. Fruit with firm, white flesh, good handling and shipping quality. 4. Fruit with an attractive red skin color. 5. Fruit staying firm on the tree 6 to 7 days after maturity (shipping ripe). 6. Vigorous, upright growth of the tree.
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 a regular and productive bearer of large, firm, white flesh, freestone fruit with a mild, subacid, sweet flavor with excellent eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having good handling and shipping quality, being nearly overspread with an attractive red skin color and maturing approximately 10 days after White Lady Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5821).
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10175 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.