US Plant Patent PP10176
Sweet Dream
Peach tree "Sweet Dream"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 28, 2016. 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
- PP10176
- Filed
- October 28, 1996
- Granted
- January 6, 1998
- Expires
- October 28, 2016
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach, Prunus persica, tree. Its novelty consists of the following unique combination. of features that are desirable in a new peach variety: 1. Produces fruit with mild, sweet, subacid flavor with very good eating quality. 2. Heavy and regular production of large size fruit. 3. Fruit with firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality. 4. Fruit having a high degree of attractive red skin color. 5. Vigorous, upright growth habit. 6. Fruit holding firm on the tree 10 to 14 days after maturity (shipping ripe). 7. Relatively uniform maturity of fruit throughout the tree.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A present 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 large size, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit; the fruit is further characterized by having a high degree of attractive red skin color, firm flesh with good handling and shipping quality and, having a mild, sweet, subacid flavor with very good eating quality and, in comparison to the subacid fruit of Sweet Gem Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,952) the fruit is approximately 35 days later in maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10176 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.