US Plant Patent PP8955
Early Rosa
"Early Rosa" plum tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 2, 2013. 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
- PP8955
- Filed
- November 2, 1993
- Granted
- October 25, 1994
- Expires
- November 2, 2013
- Inventor
- WILSON DAVID A
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Santa Rosa"]plum tree (unpatented), but from which it is distinguished by producing fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately seven days to ten days prior to the fruit produced by the "Santa Rosa" plum tree and wherein the fruit is of an excellent quality having a sweet, rich flavor, a bright cherry red to dark purple skin coloration and a moderately firm clingstone 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 plum tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree substantially as illustrated and described which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Santa Rosa" plum tree (unpatented), but from which it is distinguished by producing fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately June 14 to June 19, or about seven to ten days before the "Santa Rosa" plum tree, in the northern San Joaquin Valley of California and which has a bright cherry red to dark purple skin coloration.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8955 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.