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US Plant Patent PP20864

Plumred III

Interspecific tree name ‘Plumred III’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 15, 2028.

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 PP20864, the photograph of Plumred III printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP20864, 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.

The record

Patent number
PP20864
Filed
December 15, 2008
Granted
March 23, 2010
Expires
December 15, 2028
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN

Abstract

The present invention relates to an interspecific tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, moderately vigorous, hardy, and productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollination from an apricot, interspecific, or plum that blooms during the mid season. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during the latter half of June, with first picking on Jun. 20, 2008. The fruit is uniformly large in size, very dark red in skin color, semi-freestone in type, oblate in shape, red in flesh color, firm in texture, and sweetly acidic in flavor.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of interspecific Prunus sp. tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is similar to ‘Yummybeaut’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,478) plum by being self-unfruitful and by producing fruit that is dark red to purple in skin color, firm in texture, and matures in the second half of June, but is distinguished therefrom by having a more prolific bloom, by producing more pollen, and by producing fruit that is sweeter in flavor, much larger in size, semi-freestone instead of clingstone, oblate instead of globose in shape, and dark red in flesh color instead of yellow.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP20864 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.