US Plant Patent PP5486
42-GA-1200
Plum tree `42-GA-1200`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 30, 2003. 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP5486
- Filed
- June 30, 1983
- Granted
- June 4, 1985
- Expires
- June 30, 2003
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; ZAIGER GARY N; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is medium to large size, medium vigorous, upright, and medium dense; foliated with medium size, mostly elliptical, some oblanceolate, leaves having a serrate margin, and globose glands; flowers from plump, free buds of medium to large size and length; and is a regular and productive bearer of large, clingstone, nearly globose fruit slightly flattened at the base and apex, the fruit having bluish-red skin and yellow flesh.
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 plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characerized by large, clingstone, nearly globose fruit slightly flattened at the base and apex, the fruit having bluish-red skin and firm, yellow flesh; and further characterized by blooming with the Santa Rosa but bearing fruit ripening approximately one week earlier; the fruit having a good flavor and very good storage, shipping, and eating qualities; and, throughout the tree, the fruit being nearly uniform in size and relatively uniform in maturity.
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