US Plant Patent PP19527
Black Majesty
Plum tree named ‘Black Majesty’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends November 26, 2027.
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
- PP19527
- Filed
- November 26, 2007
- Granted
- December 2, 2008
- Expires
- November 26, 2027
- Assignee
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
- Inventor
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
Abstract
The present invention relates to an plum tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, and very productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollination from a plum that blooms during the mid season. The present variety's abundance of blossoms and pollen entices strong bee activity to facilitate pollination. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during early September, with first picking on Sep. 2, 2007, and will hang on the tree for about fifteen more days. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, nearly black in skin color, clingstone in type, globose with a small point at the apex shape, orange yellow in flesh color, firm in texture, and very sweet in flavor.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is similar to ‘Angeleno’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,747) plum by being self-unfruitful and by producing fruit that is mostly black in skin color, that is clingstone in type, and that ripens near the first of September, but is distinguished therefrom by being easier to pollinate, by being more consistent in production, and by producing fruit that is much sweeter in flavor and that possesses and maintains much more juice.
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