Sweet Fruitful

Sweet Fruitful

Cherry tree named ‘Sweet Fruitful’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 24, 2029.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP21926, the photograph of Sweet Fruitful printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP21926, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

Abstract

The present invention relates to a cherry tree, Prunus avium, and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, very productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in the latter part of May, with first picking on May 23, 2009. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, sweet in flavor, somewhat oblate in shape, clingstone in type, firm in texture, red in flesh color, and full red in skin color.

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1. A new and distinct variety of cherry tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to the ‘Glenred’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,859) cherry by producing cherries that are large in size, oblate in shape, firm in texture, dark red in skin color, red in flesh color, and sweet in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom by blooming about three days later, by being self-fruitful instead of self-sterile, and by producing cherries that ripen about seven days later.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP21926 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

Abstract