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US Plant Patent PP14178

Autumn Yummy

Plum tree named ‘Autumn Yummy’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 21, 2022. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14178, the photograph of Autumn Yummy printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14178, 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.

The record

Patent number
PP14178
Filed
November 21, 2002
Granted
September 23, 2003
Expires
November 21, 2022
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN

Abstract

The present invention relates to a plum tree, Prunus salicina, and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large size, vigorous, hardy, heavy blooming, pollen abundant, self-unfruitful, and usually productive tree. The present variety requires cross pollinization other plums that bloom during the mid to late season, such as ‘Blackamber’ (unpatented) or ‘Angeleno’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,747). The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in early September, with first picking on Sep. 7, 2002. The fruit is uniformly large in size, globose to slightly oblate in shape, blackish red in skin color, mostly red in flesh color, clingstone in type, very firm and crisp in texture, and very good in flavor. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using ‘Freedom’ (unpatented) as the selected seed parent and an undetermined plum as the pollen parent.

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 plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Angeleno’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,747) plum by being self-unfruitful and by producing plums that are nearly black in skin color, globose to oblate in shape, firm in texture, and mature in the late season, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing plums that are larger in size, sweeter in flavor, juicier, and mostly red instead of pale yellowish green in flesh color.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14178 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.