US Plant Patent PP9964
Sweet September
Peach tree `Sweet September`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 25, 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
- PP9964
- Filed
- April 25, 1996
- Granted
- July 15, 1997
- Expires
- April 25, 2016
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree, Prunus persica, which has the following unique combination of desirable features that are outstanding in a new variety: 1. Fruit with a mild, sweet, sub-acid flavor with excellent eating quality. 2. Fruit maturing in the late maturity season. 3. Relatively uniform, large-size fruit throughout the tree. 4. Fruit with firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality. 5. Fruit holding firm on the tree 10 to 12 days after maturity (shipping ripe). 6. Having a vigorous, upright growth habit.
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 large, firm, yellow flesh, freestone fruit with a sweet, mild, sub-acid flavor with excellent eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by being relatively uniform throughout the tree, having good handling and shipping quality; and maturing in the late season, approximately 5 weeks after O'Henry Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,964).
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