US Plant Patent PP10094
Snow Kist
Peach tree "Snow Kist"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 27, 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
- PP10094
- Filed
- August 27, 1996
- Granted
- November 4, 1997
- Expires
- August 27, 2016
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree which has the following unique combination of features that are outstanding in a new variety: 1. Heavy and regular bearer of fruit. 2. Production of large, firm, white flesh fruit. 3. Early maturity of fruit. 4. Large tree size with vigorous, upright growth. 5. Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color. 6. Fruit with very good flavor and eating quality.
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 clingstone fruit with very good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having firm white flesh with good handling and shipping quality, having an attractive red skin color and ripening in the early maturing season, approximately the same season as the early
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