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US Plant Patent PP28468

Plumcandy XIII

Plum tree named ‘Plumcandy XIII’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 12, 2036.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 11, 2035. This patent earned 32 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP28468, the photograph of Plumcandy XIII printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP28468, 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
PP28468
Filed
December 11, 2015
Granted
October 3, 2017
Expires
January 12, 2036
Assignee
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN, QUISENBERRY JON M
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN; QUISENBERRY JON M

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, and somewhat irregularly productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollination from another plum that blooms during the mid season, such as ‘Yummyrosa’ plum (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,476). The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in mid to late October, with first picking on Oct. 16, 2015, and has the ability to hang firm on the tree for another three weeks. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, full red in skin color, freestone in type, purely yellow in flesh color, very firm in texture, juicy, typically 22 to 24 brix, and excellent in flavor.

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, that is most similar to ‘September Yummy’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 14,220) plum by having a large tree, by being self-unfruitful, and by producing plums that are nearly full red with moderate freckling in skin color, mostly yellow in flesh color, juicy, firm in texture, but is distinguished therefrom by being more irregular in setting and by producing plums that are sweeter in flavor, that are oblate instead of globose in shape, and that ripen about thirty days later.

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