US Plant Patent PP5904
Santa Rosa-Two
Plum tree "Santa Rosa-Two"
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
- PP5904
- Filed
- August 19, 1985
- Granted
- March 17, 1987
- Expires
- August 19, 2005
- Inventor
- GARABEDIAN JOHN M
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is somewhat similar to the Santa Rosa Plum Tree (unpatented), with which it is most similarly related, and which is characterized by fruit which is deeper and fuller in external color, larger in size, and possesses an Amber-colored flesh which is lightly streaked in Red near the cavity of the fruit.
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, I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree substantially as illustrated and described which is somewhat similar to the Santa Rosa Plum Tree (unpatented) with which it most closely resembles, but from which it is distinguished by bearing fruit which is large, uniform and a full dark Purple in color, which ripens approximately five days before the Santa Rosa Plum (unpatented) and has a firm, Amber-colored, lightly streaked Red flesh, and furthermore which has leaves which are a Deep Green and spur leaves which are characteristically narrower than the short leaves.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5904 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.