Skip to content
The Patent Garden

US Plant Patent PP26055

Plumsweet XVI

Interspecific tree named ‘Plumsweet XVI’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 29, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 16, 2033. This patent earned 164 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP26055, the photograph of Plumsweet XVI printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP26055, 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
PP26055
Filed
December 16, 2013
Granted
November 10, 2015
Expires
May 29, 2034
Assignee
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN, QUISENBERRY JON MICHAEL
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN; QUISENBERRY JON MICHAEL

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 July, with first picking on Jul. 8, 2013, and can hang on the tree for up to two weeks. The fruit is uniformly large in size, a green and red two-tone in skin color, full red in flesh color, clingstone in type, oblate in shape, firm in texture, juicy, and very good in flavor.

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 variety of interspecific Prunus sp. tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Plumsweet XIV’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 23,686) interspecific tree, by being self-unfruitful and by producing fruit that is a green and red two-tone in skin color, full red in flesh color, firm in texture, juicy, and sweet in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit that is much more oblate in shape, that is larger in size, and that is less prone to skin cracking.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP26055 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.