Danae

Danae

Plum tree named ‘Danae’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 7, 2021. 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 PP13740, the photograph of Danae printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13740, 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 which is somewhat remotely similar to the ‘Angeleno’ plum (unpatented), but from which it is distinguished therefrom by fruit for harvesting and shipment approximately the three to five days earlier than the fruit produced by the ‘Angeleno’ plum tree, but which further produces a high quality, fresh market plum of medium size with a dark purple to burgundy colored skin and red flesh of exceptional eating quality and good storage characteristics.

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Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of plum tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by plant letters patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree substantially as illustrated and described, and which is an unknown sort and is somewhat similar to ‘Angeleno’ plum tree (unpatented) but is distinguished therefrom and characterized principally as to novelty by producing fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment during the first week of September, and which have a superior flavor, red flesh, dark purple to burgundy coloration, and excellent eating quality.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13740 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

Abstract