US Plant Patent PP8195

Snowbrite

Peach tree "Snowbrite"

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 23, 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: PP8195
Filed: December 23, 1991
Granted: April 6, 1993
Expires: December 23, 2011

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of peach tree which has the following unique combination of desirable features that are outstanding in a new variety. 1. The ability of the fruit to stay firm on the tree 6 to 7 days after maturity (picking ripe). 2. Fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 3. Bearing very firm white flesh fruit with good shipping and storage quality. 4. Heavy and regular bearing of large size fruit. 5. 9 Fruit with early maturity. 6. Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color, coloring 6 to 7 days before maturity.

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 is of large size, vigorous, upright in growth and a regular and productive bearer of large, very firm, white flesh, freestone fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by coloring 6 to 7 days before maturity and in comparison to Giant Babcock Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,353) has firmer white flesh, a higher degree of attractive red skin color and matures approximately 34 days earlier.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8195 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.