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US Plant Patent PP7843

Autumn Pride

Plum tree "Autumn Pride"

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 21, 2010. 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
PP7843
Filed
November 21, 1990
Granted
March 31, 1992
Expires
November 21, 2010

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of plum tree which has the following combination of desirable features that are outstanding in a new variety. 1. Late maturity of fruit. 2. Heavy and regular production. 3. Very good flavor and eating quality. 4. Fruit with good storage and shipping quality. 5. Fruit that will hold firm on the tree for approximately 2 weeks after maturity. 6. Uniform coloring of the skin giving the fruit an attractive appearance. 7. Upright vigorous growth. 8. Fruit with attractive plum-purple to dark violet color.

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

The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its vigorous, upright growth and a regular and productive bearer of large, firm, semi-freestone fruit with very good flavor and eating quality; the tree is particularly characterized by bearing fruit which mature in the very late season, approximately 7 to 10 days after Roysum Plum (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,619) one of the latest maturing commercial varieties.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7843 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.