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US Plant Patent PP13505

Royal Treat

Interspecific tree named ‘Royal Treat’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 7, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13505, the photograph of Royal Treat printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13505, 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
PP13505
Filed
February 7, 2002
Granted
January 21, 2003
Expires
February 7, 2022
Inventor
ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of interspecific tree (Plum×Plumcot). The following features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on ‘citation’ Rootstock (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,112), 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 consists of the following combination of desirable features: 1. Fruit with very good flavor and eating quality. 2. Fruit maturing in the early maturity season. 3. Fruit with an attractive dark magenta skin color. 4. Vigorous, upright growth habit. 5. Fruit with a good balance between sugar and acid, having soluble solids of 14.8° 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 variety of interspecific tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and being a productive and regular bearer of medium size, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit with very good flavor and eating quality. The fruit is further characterized by ripening in the early maturing season and, in comparison to the ‘Laroda’ Plum (non-patented), the fruit is approximately 30 days earlier in maturity.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13505 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.