US Plant Patent PP10315
UFGold
Peach tree `UFGold`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 10, 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
- PP10315
- Filed
- September 10, 1996
- Granted
- April 7, 1998
- Expires
- September 10, 2016
- Inventor
- SHERMAN WAYNE B
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree which has a low winter chilling requirement of approximately 200 chill units (cu). The tree is of large size, is highly vigorous spreading growth habit and has showy pink flowers. Glands are reniform in shape and isolated to the basal portions of leaves. This tree, which has been denominated UFGold is a regular bearer of heavy crops of early maturing, large for early ripening season, with very firm non-melting flesh, clingstone fruit having yellow flesh color. Fruit is uniform, attractive, substantially symmetrical shape, and has an attractive normally 70 to 90% solid red over-color. The fruit ripens substantially with that of Flordaglo in early May at Gainesville, Fla.
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 as illustrated and described, characterized by a low- chilling requirement and bearing moderately, early-ripening fruit with firm, yellow, non-melting flesh and high eating quality and an attractive high percentage red overcolor; and, fruit ripens in early May or with Flordaglo at Gainesville.
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