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US Plant Patent PP12943

Crimson Heart

Interspecific tree named ‘Crimson Heart’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 6, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 10, 2021. This patent earned 26 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP12943, the photograph of Crimson Heart printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP12943, 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
PP12943
Filed
April 10, 2001
Granted
September 10, 2002
Expires
May 6, 2021
Inventor
ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of interspecific tree. The following features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on ‘Nemaguard’ Rootstock (non-patented), grown on Handford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA Hardiness Zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., with standard commercial fruit growing practices, such as pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consist of the following unique combination of features that are desirable in a new variety: 1. Heavy and regular production of large, red flesh, clingstone fruit. 2. Fruit with very good flavor and eating quality. 3. Fruit with firm flesh, good storage and shipping quality. 4. Fruit with a good balance between sugar and acid having high soluble solids of 15.5° Brix.

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

We claim: 1. A new and distinct interspecific tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and being a productive and regular bearer of large, clingstone, red flesh fruit with very good flavor and eating quality; and, in comparison to the interspecific tree ‘Flavorosa’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,285), the new tree blooms one week later in the spring, produces fruit that is more round in shape and is 7 to 10 days later in maturity.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12943 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.