US Plant Patent PP10190
Snow Jewel
Peach tree `Snow Jewel`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 11, 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
- PP10190
- Filed
- October 11, 1996
- Granted
- January 13, 1998
- Expires
- October 11, 2016
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach, Prunus persica, tree with the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Heavy and regular production of large, white flesh, clingstone fruit. 2. Fruit with a mild, sweet, subacid flavor with excellent eating quality. 3. Fruit with firm white flesh, good handling and shipping qualities. 4. An attractive fruit with a white ground color nearly overspread with a red blush. 5. Large tree size with vigorous, upright growth. 6. Relatively uniform ripening of fruit throughout 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 being a productive and regular bearer of large white flesh fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having a high degree of attractive red skin color, having firm flesh with good handling and shipping quality and, in comparison to White Lady Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,821), the new variety is aproximately 18 days earlier in maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10190 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.