US Plant Patent PP8442
Sugar Giant
Peach tree "Sugar Giant"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 25, 2013. 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
- PP8442
- Filed
- January 25, 1993
- Granted
- November 2, 1993
- Expires
- January 25, 2013
- Assignee
- GARDNER LEITH M, ZAIGER CHRIS F, ZAIGER GARY N, ZAIGER GRANT G
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; ZAIGER GARY N; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree with the following unique combination of desirable features. 1. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 2. Relatively uniform large fruit throughout the tree. 3. Fruit with firm white flesh. 4. Fruit with good handling and shipping quality. 5. Vigorous upright growth. 6. Producing mild, sweet, sub-acid fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 7. An attractive fruit having a white ground color with a light red blush.
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 a productive and regular bearer of large, white flesh, freestone fruit with good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by being relatively uniform in size throughout the tree, having good handling and shipping quality and having an attractive red blush.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8442 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.