US Plant Patent PP8069
green jade
Plum tree `green jade`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 8, 2011. 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
- PP8069
- Filed
- April 8, 1991
- Granted
- December 22, 1992
- Expires
- April 8, 2011
Abstract
A new plum tree of medium vigor, vase to spreading form, which bears blemish free cling stone fruit of attractive, uniform green exterior color with darker patterns of green flecks over a yellowish-green ground color at harvest, and which is of rounded shape, sweet subacid taste, and pronounced aroma and being ready for harvest in the last week of May when grown in the Reedley area of Fresno, Calif. Fruit is of excellent eating and shipping quality due to even ripening of light yellow flesh which has a few fibers and substantially uniform flesh color.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of plum tree, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree of yellow fleshed, cling stone type, substantially as herein shown and described, having a maturity period in the early season and having fruit of good sugar content when harvested, with a green color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8069 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.