US Plant Patent PP5902
Ranch 9 Maroon
Plum tree, Ranch 9 Maroon
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
- PP5902
- Filed
- August 19, 1985
- Granted
- March 17, 1987
- Expires
- August 19, 2005
- Inventor
- GARABEDIAN JOHN M
Abstract
A plum tree broadly characterized by producing fruit which has a Deep Maroon color, heavy Blue-Gray blush, and a firm flesh which is a Deep Red in color throughout and a semi-freestone whose surfaces are stained Red from the flesh pigments.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having described my new variety of plum tree, what I claim as new is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree substantially as illustrated and described, broadly characterized by its maturity date which is approximately the same as the Roysum Plum (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,619) which it is most similar to, but which it is distinguished therefrom as to novelty by its fruit having a skin of a color of Dark Maroon with a heavy Blue-Gray bloom, whose flesh is Medium to Deep Red throughout and by a stone whose cheek surfaces are stained Red from the flesh pigments.
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