US Plant Patent PP5831
Zee-Red
Peach tree ("Zee-Red")
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 4, 2005. 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
- PP5831
- Filed
- February 4, 1985
- Granted
- December 16, 1986
- Expires
- February 4, 2005
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; ZAIGER GARY N; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
This new and distinct variety relates to a peach tree which has the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Relatively uniform size of fruit throughout the tree. 2. Fruit with attractive red skin color. 3. Heavy and regular fruit production. 4. Fruit with very firm flesh and very good storage and shipping quality. 5. Vigorous, upright growth. 6. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and being a productive and regular bearer of large, very firm, yellow flesh, freestone fruit with good eating, storage and shipping quality; the fruit is further characterized by being relatively uniform in size throughout the tree, having an attractive red skin color, and maturing 7 to 10 days before Fayette Peach (Non-patent).
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5831 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.