US Plant Patent PP12083
Sweet Alice
Peach tree ‘Sweet Alice’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 25, 2019. 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
- PP12083
- Filed
- January 25, 1999
- Granted
- September 11, 2001
- Expires
- January 25, 2019
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree ( Prunus persica ); the features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on Nemaguard rootstock (unpatented), grown on Hanford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA Hardiness Zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., using standard commercial cultural fruit growing practices, such as, pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consist of the following unique combination of features that are desirable in a new variety: 1. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 2. Vigorous and upright growth. 3. Fruit having a high degree of attractive red skin color. 4. Fruit with a mild, sweet, sub-acid taste with very good flavor and eating quality. 5. Fruit with firm flesh, having good storage and shipping quality. 6. Fruit holding firm 7 to 10 days after maturity (shipping ripe). 7. Early maturity of medium to large, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit.
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 medium to large yellow flesh, clingstone fruit; the fruit is further characterized by being nearly globose in shape with a high degree of attractive red skin blush, having a sweet, mild, sub-acid taste with very good flavor and eating quality and, in comparison to the sub-acid peach Sweet Gem (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,952), the new variety is 20 days earlier in maturity.
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