US Plant Patent PP11224
Gulfbeauty
Plum tree named `Gulfbeauty`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 2, 2017. 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
- PP11224
- Filed
- September 2, 1997
- Granted
- February 15, 2000
- Expires
- September 2, 2017
- Inventor
- SHERMAN WAYNE B
Abstract
A Japanese-type plum tree characterized by its low winter chilling adaptation to central and north Florida, early May ripening of dark red skin fruit and regular, high annual fruit production.
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, which is vigorous, large, and semi spreading in growth and is adapted to central and north Florida producing annual crops of medium size, clingstone fruit with full red skin and pale yellow flesh, ripening a week before `Gulfruby` and having firm flesh with good shipping characteristics for its intended fresh market use.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11224 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.