August Giant

August Giant

Plum tree named ‘August Giant’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 21, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 30, 2023. This patent earned 82 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15580, the photograph of August Giant printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15580, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of plum tree that is characterized by producing a freestone fruit with good dark red coloration and that is ripe for commercial harvesting and shipment August 28-30 in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California. The new variety is closely similar to the ‘Mid Red’ plum tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,744) from which it is a bud sport and from which is distinguishable in that the fruit is much larger, has more dark coloration, has excellent flavor and stores exceptionally well, ripening seven days after ‘Mid Red’ plum fruit.

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1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree as described and illustrated that is somewhat similar to the ‘Mid Red’ plum tree from which it is a bud sport, but is distinguished therefrom in that the fruit is larger, has more dark red coloration, has excellent flavor and stores exceptionally well, ripening about seven days after ‘Mid Red’ plum fruit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15580 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

Abstract