US Plant Patent PP9778
Star-Fire
Peach tree `Star-Fire`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 30, 2015. 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
- PP9778
- Filed
- October 30, 1995
- Granted
- January 7, 1997
- Expires
- October 30, 2015
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GARY N; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree which has the following combination of desirable features that are outstanding in a new variety: 1. Fruit with large size, good flavor and eating quality. 2. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 3. Fruit with firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality. 4. Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color. 5. Vigorous upright growth. 6. Coloring of fruit 6 to 8 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 growth, and is a regular and productive bearer of large, firm, yellow flesh, semi-freestone fruit with good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by coloring 6 to 8 days before maturity, having a high degree of attractive red skin color, having good handling and shipping quality; and in comparison to Amparo Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,472), the fruit is approximately 1 week later in maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9778 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.