US Plant Patent PP8034

Sugar May

Peach tree "Sugar May"

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 13, 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: PP8034
Filed: May 13, 1991
Granted: November 17, 1992
Expires: May 13, 2011

Abstract

A new variety of peach tree with the following unique combination of features that are outstanding in a new variety: 1. Early maturity of large, white flesh fruit. 2. The regular and heavy production of fruit. 3. Vigorous upright growth. 4. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 5. Fruit with firm flesh, good handling and shipping qualities. 6. Fruit with attractive red skin color.

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, early maturing, white flesh, clingstone fruit with good eating and shipping qualities; the fruit is further characterized in comparison to the white flesh variety Redwing Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 621) by having firmer flesh, greater shipping quality, a higher degree of attractive red skin color and maturing approximately 14 days earlier.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8034 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.