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US Plant Patent PP13478

Yummybeaut

Plum tree named ‘Yummybeaut’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 13, 2021. 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 PP13478, the photograph of Yummybeaut printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13478, 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
PP13478
Filed
December 13, 2001
Granted
January 14, 2003
Expires
December 13, 2021
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, self-unfruitful, usually productive tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during the third week in June, with first picking on Jun. 17, 2001. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, excellent in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, very firm in texture, yellow in flesh color, and dark red to purple in skin color. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using ‘Grand Rosa’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,756) as the selected seed parent and an unnamed plum seedling 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 ‘Black Beaut’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,617), by being self-unfruitful and producing dark red plums that are globose in shape and that mature during the middle of June, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing an abundance of pollen and by producing fruit that is firmer in texture, sweeter in flavor, and has no red bleeding in the flesh.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13478 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.