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US Plant Patent PP33139

PLUMRED XIV

Plum tree named ‘PLUMRED XIV’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 4, 2041.

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 PP33139, the photograph of PLUMRED XIV printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP33139, 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
PP33139
Filed
January 4, 2021
Granted
June 8, 2021
Expires
January 4, 2041
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 productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollination from an apricot, interspecific, or plum that blooms during the mid season, such as ‘Plumsweet XVI’ interspecific tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 26,055). The present variety produces a heavy density of flowers that produce a moderate amount of pollen to entice good bee activity to facilitate pollination. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during early August, with first picking on Aug. 5, 2020. The fruit is uniformly large in size, very deep purplish red in skin color, full dark red flesh color, clingstone in type, globose to oblate in shape, firm in texture, juicy, 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 VII’ interspecific tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 23,600), by being self-unfruitful and by producing fruit that is fairly globose in shape, dark red in its primary skin color, completely red in flesh color, firm in texture, juicy, very sweet, excellent in flavor, and clingstone in type, but is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit that is somewhat larger in size, that has only a moderate amount of very fine freckling instead of a heavy amount of greenish yellow colored freckling in the skin appearance, and that matures about 22 days earlier.

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