US Plant Patent PP10880
Gulfblaze
Plum tree named `Gulfblaze`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 5, 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
- PP10880
- Filed
- August 5, 1997
- Granted
- May 4, 1999
- Expires
- August 5, 2017
- Inventor
- SHERMAN WAYNE B
Abstract
A Japanese type plum tree characterized by its low winter chilling adaptation to central and north Florida, and mid to late May ripening of dark red skin fruit with orange-yellow flesh and regular, high annual fruit production.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is vigorous, large, and semi-spreading in growth with a low winter chilling requirement for adaption to north central and north Florida producing an annual crop of medium large semi freestone fruit with full red skin and orange flesh, which ripens 7 to 10 days after `Gulfruby` and having firm flesh with good fresh market shipping characteristics.
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