US Plant Patent PP5662
Beaut
Plum tree (June Beaut)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 18, 2004. 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
- PP5662
- Filed
- June 18, 1984
- Granted
- February 18, 1986
- Expires
- June 18, 2004
- Inventor
- BRADFORD NORMAN G; BRADFORD LOWELL G
Abstract
The present invention relates to a plum tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large, vigorous, upright tree, hardy, regular bearing and very productive, which requires a pollinator. The clingstone fruit is oblate in form, has a dark maroon skin color with yellow specks, greenish-yellow flesh, and a firm and crisp texture. The fruit generally achieves picking ripeness about three to five days after the El Dorado (believed to be patented) but the fruit is larger in size and has a picking time which extends approximately ten days, under the ecological conditions described. The fruit is of good eating and shipping quality.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of clingstone plum tree substantially as illustrated and described, which most nearly resembles its parent plant El Dorado plum, a non-intra varietal pollinator, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon in that it is a more vigorous tree and bears fruit which ripens about three to five days earlier, is somewhat larger in size, and has a darker maroon skin color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5662 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.