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US Plant Patent PP28997

Plumsweet XX

Plum tree named ‘Plumsweet XX’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 15, 2036.

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 PP28997, the photograph of Plumsweet XX printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP28997, 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
PP28997
Filed
December 15, 2016
Granted
February 27, 2018
Expires
December 15, 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 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 early season, such as ‘Yummygem’ plum tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 15,809). The present variety produces a moderate amount of blossoms that produce a medium amount of pollen to entice good bee activity to facilitate pollination. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during early June, with first picking on May 29, 2016. The fruit is uniformly medium to large in size, a red and green two-tone in skin color, full red in flesh color, clingstone in type, somewhat oblate in shape, firm in texture, juicy, sweet, and very good 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 ‘Plumsweet VI’ interspecific tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 18,687), by being self-unfruitful and by producing fruit that ripens in the early season and that is a red and green two-tone with freckles in skin color, clingstone in type, firm in texture, juicy, and sweet in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom by being easier to set and by producing fruit that is larger in size and darker red in flesh color.

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