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US Plant Patent PP34207

PLUMSWEET XXV

Plum tree named ‘PLUMSWEET XXV’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 17, 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 PP34207, the photograph of PLUMSWEET XXV printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP34207, 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
PP34207
Filed
December 17, 2021
Granted
May 10, 2022
Expires
December 17, 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 medium 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 late season, such as ‘Plumred VII’ interspecific tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 23,688). 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 late August, with first picking on Aug. 22, 2021. The fruit is uniformly large in size, globose to oblate in shape, very deep purplish red with heavy freckling in skin color, full red flesh in color, clingstone in type, firm and crisp in texture, juicy, very sweet, excellent in flavor, and virtually non-acidic in both the flesh and skin.

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 XIV’ plum tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 33,139), by being self-unfruitful and by producing fruit that is mostly globose in shape, fairly large in size, dark purplish red in primary skin color, entirely red in flesh color, firm and crisp in texture, juicy, very sweet, excellent in flavor, and clingstone in type, but is distinguished therefrom by blooming later and by producing fruit that has much heavier and larger skin freckling, that has much less skin and flesh acidity, and that matures about two weeks later.

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