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US Plant Patent PP5912

Ranch 9-Golden

Plum tree, "Ranch 9-Golden"

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 19, 2005. 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.

The record

Patent number
PP5912
Filed
August 19, 1985
Granted
March 24, 1987
Expires
August 19, 2005
Inventor
GARABEDIAN JOHN M

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is somewhat similar to the Roysum Plum Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,619) and the Angeleno Plum Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,747) concurrently with which it bears fruit which is characteristically a full dark Purplish-Red color of uniform globular shape and by its firm, Golden Yellow flesh which has Purplish-Red pigment diffused into the flesh next to the fruit skin, and further characterized by the extreme tightness with which the flesh fibers adhere to the stone surface.

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

Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of plum tree, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree substantially as illustrated and described which is somewhat similar to the Roysum Plum Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,619) and the Angeleno Plum Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,747) with which it bears fruit which matures at substantially the same season but from which it is distinguished by bearing fruit which is of a full dark Purplish-Red color, of uniform size and regular shape, having a firm, Golden Yellow flesh which has red pigment diffused into the flesh next to the skin and furthermore by a characteristic extreme tightness with which the flesh fibers adhere to the stone surface.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5912 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.