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US Plant Patent PP23688

Plumred VII

Interspecific tree named ‘Plumred VII’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends February 8, 2032.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 8, 2031. This patent earned 62 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP23688, the photograph of Plumred VII printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP23688, 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
PP23688
Filed
December 8, 2011
Granted
June 25, 2013
Expires
February 8, 2032
Assignee
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
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, 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 to late season. The present variety produces a heavy bloom with an abundant amount of pollen to entice good bee activity to facilitate pollination. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during the last half of July, with first picking on Jul. 23, 2011, and can hang on the tree for up to thirty days. The fruit is uniformly large in size, dark red in skin color, clingstone in type, globose in shape, dark red in flesh color, firm in texture, and excellent flavor.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of interspecific Prunus sp. tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Plumred VI’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 21,051) interspecific tree, by being self-unfruitful and by producing fruit that is large in size, globose in shape, firm, juicy, and sweet in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom by blooming about six days earlier and by producing fruit that is darker red in skin color, that is somewhat darker red in flesh color, and that ripens about four days earlier, but has a much longer picking window because it can hang on the tree for up to thirty days.

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