US Plant Patent PP8085

Snow Giant

Peach tree "Snow Giant"

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 27, 2011. 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: PP8085
Filed: August 27, 1991
Granted: January 5, 1993
Expires: August 27, 2011

Abstract

The new and distinct variety relates to a peach tree which has the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Production of fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 2. Heavy and regular production of fruit with large size. 3. Vigorous, upright growth. 4. Fruit with firm white flesh, good storage and shipping quality. 5. Production of fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color. 6. Fruit ripening in the late maturity season.

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, white flesh fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality; the present variety is further characterized in comparison to the white flesh peach Giant Babcock (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,353) as having the ability to produce a greater number of large, uniform sized fruit with a higher degree of attractive red skin color and the fruit maturing approximately one month later.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8085 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.