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US Plant Patent PP23741

Plumred VIII

Interspecific tree named ‘Plumred VIII’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends February 15, 2032.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 8, 2031. This patent earned 69 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP23741, the photograph of Plumred VIII printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP23741, 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
PP23741
Filed
December 8, 2011
Granted
July 16, 2013
Expires
February 15, 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 moderately heavy bloom, but is pollen deficient and should have pollinators grafted in the center of the tree to entice good bee activity for sufficient pollination. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during mid August, with first picking on Aug. 19, 2011. The fruit is uniformly medium to large in size, deep red in skin color, clingstone in type, globose in shape, nearly full red in flesh color, firm and crisp in texture, and excellent in 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 similar to its sister, ‘Blackred VIII’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 20,863) interspecific, by being self-unfruitful and by producing fruit that is similar in size, clingstone in type, and firm in texture, but is distinguished therefrom by being pollen deficient and producing fruit that is darker red in flesh color, that is deep red instead of black in skin color, that is globose instead of oblate in shape, and that matures about eight days earlier.

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