US Plant Patent PP8597
Special Red July
"Special Red July" peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 2, 2012. 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
- PP8597
- Filed
- July 2, 1992
- Granted
- February 15, 1994
- Expires
- July 2, 2012
- Assignee
- VISCARRA FEDERICO E
- Inventor
- VISCARRA FEDERICO E
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Elegant Lady" peach tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,399) and the "O'Henry" peach tree (U.S. Pat. No. 2,964), but from which it is distinguished by producing fruit which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately July 22 to August 5 in the central San Joaquin Valley of California, the fruit being freestone having an oval shape and which further exhibits a highly colored and very firm light yellow flesh.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of peach tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described which was derived as a spontaneous mutation of the "Spring Red" nectarine tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,619) and which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Elegant Lady" peach tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,399) and the "O'Henry" peach tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,964), but from which it is distinguished by producing a freestone fruit which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately July 22 to August 5 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California, the fruit having from an orange-red to a deeper garnet-red coloration having substantial light colored speckles present and a flesh which is a light amber-yellow and of a very firm texture at commercial maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8597 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.