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US Plant Patent PP14196

PLUMSWEETTWO

Plum tree named ‘PLUMSWEETTWO’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 21, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

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 PP14196, the photograph of PLUMSWEETTWO printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14196, 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
PP14196
Filed
November 21, 2002
Granted
September 30, 2003
Expires
November 21, 2022
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN

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, heavy blooming, moderately productive and self-unfruitful tree, that may be cross pollinized by ‘August Yummy®’ (U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 10/300,603 filed concurrently). The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during the third week in July, with first picking on Jul. 20, 2002. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, full dark purplish red in skin color, clingstone in type, red in flesh color, very firm and crisp in texture, very good in flavor, and holds well in cold storage for more than thirty days. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using an unnamed plum seedling as the selected seed parent and ‘Black Noble’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,504) as the selected pollen parent.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to its pollen parent, ‘Red Noble’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,504), by being self-unfruitful and by producing plums that are dark purplish red in skin color, very firm and crisp in texture, clingstone in type, and almost full red in flesh color, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing plums that are considerably larger in size, that are sweeter in flavor, and that mature about 40 days later.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14196 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.