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US Plant Patent PP28400

Plumred XII

Plum tree named ‘Plumred XII’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 14, 2036.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 11, 2035. This patent earned 34 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP28400, the photograph of Plumred XII printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP28400, 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
PP28400
Filed
December 11, 2015
Granted
September 19, 2017
Expires
January 14, 2036
Assignee
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN, QUISENBERRY JON M
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN; QUISENBERRY JON M

Abstract

The present invention relates to a plum tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium to large size, vigorous, hardy, and productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollination from an apricot, interspecific, or plum that blooms during the mid to late season, such as ‘September Yummy’ plum (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 14,220). The present variety produces a medium amount of bloom with plenty of pollen to entice good bee activity to facilitate pollination. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during the last part of September, with first picking on Sep. 21, 2015, and will hang on the tree an additional twenty days. The fruit is uniformly medium to large in size, full red in skin color, full red in flesh color, semi-freestone in type, mostly oblate in shape, firm in texture, very sweet, 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, Prunus salicina , substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Plumred IX’ interspecific tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 23,719), by having a medium to large size tree, by being self-unfruitful, by blooming in the mid to late season, and by producing fruit that is nearly full red in skin color, mostly red in flesh color, and very sweet, but is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit that is semi-freestone instead of clingstone in type, that is much larger in size, and that matures about thirty days later.

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