US Plant Patent PP7336
Peach tree (Snow Diamond)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 22, 2009. 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
- PP7336
- Filed
- May 22, 1989
- Granted
- September 25, 1990
- Expires
- May 22, 2009
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
The present invention relates to a peach tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large size, vigorous, hardy, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the last week in July, with first picking on July 27, 1988. The fruit is white in flesh color, large and uniform in size, freestone in types, firm in texture for good quality storage and shipping, mostly red in skin color, and sweet nonacid in flavor. The variety was discovered as a per-chance seedling occurring near a Babcock (Unpatented) peach tree located adjacent to a commercial May Grand (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,794) nectarine orchard. Subsequent to origination of the present variety of peach tree, it was asexually reproduced by budding and grafting, and such reproduction of plant and fruit characteristics were true to the original plant in all respects.
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, which bears whiteflesh freestone fruit that is large and uniform in size, mostly red in skin color, firm in texture, and which most nearly resembles the Babcock (unpatented) variety, but is distinguished from and an improvement of that variety by bearing fruit that has a higher degree of red skin color, has a smaller stone, matures approximately two weeks later, and is very much firmer and more suitable for long distance shipping by the commercial grower.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7336 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.