Interspecific tree named: Flavor Wynne

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 16, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 10, 2022. This patent earned 462 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15762, the photograph of Interspecific tree named: Flavor Wynne printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15762, 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

PP15762

Filed

December 10, 2002

Granted

May 17, 2005

Expires

March 16, 2024

Inventor

ZAIGER GARY NEIL; ZAIGER GRANT GENE; GARDNER LEITH MARIE

No cultivar name of record

This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.

Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.

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 combination of desirable features: 1. Vigorous, upright tree growth. 2. Regular bearer of medium to large fruit. 3. Fruit with good handling and shipping quality. 4. Fruit with very good flavor and eating quality. 5. Fruit with an attractive reddish maroon skin color.

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

1. A new and distinct interspecific tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and being a regular and productive bearer of medium to large fruit with very good flavor and eating quality and, in comparison to ‘Santa Rosa’ Plum (non-patented), the fruit ripens in the same maturity season, is larger and more uniform in size, does not have a pre-harvest drop and is more uniform in maturity.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15762 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.