US Plant Patent PP19630
Queen Garnet
Plum tree named ‘Queen Garnet’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends May 18, 2027.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

The record
- Patent number
- PP19630
- Filed
- May 18, 2007
- Granted
- January 20, 2009
- Expires
- May 18, 2027
- Assignee
- STATE QUEENSLAND PRIMARY IND
- Inventor
- RUSSELL DOUGAL MACKENZIE; TOPP BRUCE
Abstract
A new and distinct plum tree variety bearing fruit which are high in antioxidants and anthocyanins that makes it distinct from other Japanese-like plum trees that bear red fleshed fruit. The fruit is characterized by its attractive dark red to black skin color and its intense blood red flesh color ripening in mid February in the Granite Belt of southern Queensland, Australia. The trees are precocious with regular high annual fruit production.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct plum tree named ‘Queen Garnet’ as herein described and illustrated.
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