US Plant Patent PP20865
Sweet Majesty
Plum tree named ‘Sweet Majesty’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends December 15, 2028.
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
- PP20865
- Filed
- December 15, 2008
- Granted
- March 23, 2010
- Expires
- December 15, 2028
- Assignee
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
- Inventor
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
Abstract
The present invention relates to a plum tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, moderately vigorous, hardy, and very productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollination from a plum that blooms during the mid to late season. The present variety's abundance of blossoms and pollen entices strong bee activity to facilitate pollination. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during late August through early September, with first picking on Aug. 18, 2008, and will hang on the tree for about three more weeks. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, dark purple in skin color, clingstone in type, mostly globose in shape, yellow in flesh color, firm in texture, and very sweet in flavor.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is similar to ‘Angeleno’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,747) plum by being self-unfruitful and by producing fruit that is dark purple to black in skin color, that is clingstone in type, and that ripens in the late season, but is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit that is sweeter in flavor, that possesses and maintains much more juice, that is larger in size, and that matures about ten days earlier.
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