US Plant Patent PP8583
Earliqueen
Plum tree "Earliqueen"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 12, 2013. 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
- PP8583
- Filed
- April 12, 1993
- Granted
- February 8, 1994
- Expires
- April 12, 2013
- Assignee
- GARDNER LEITH M, ZAIGER CHRIS F, ZAIGER GARY N, ZAIGER GRANT G
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GARY N; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of plum tree which has the following outstanding features that are desirable in a new variety. 1. Early maturity of large fruit. 2. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 3. Heavy and regular production. 4. Vigorous upright growth. 5. Fruit with an attractive bordeaux red skin color. 6. Fruit with firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality. 7. The ability of the fruit to stay firm on the tree 6 to 10 days after shipping ripe.
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, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and a productive and regular bearer of early maturing, large, firm, clingstone fruit with good flavor and eating quality; the new variety is further characterized in comparison to the early maturing Red Beaut Plum (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,539) as producing larger fruit, being heavier in production and the fruit being approximately 2 days later in maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8583 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.