US Plant Patent PP11258
Miwang
Plumcot tree named `Miwang`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 13, 2017. 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
- PP11258
- Filed
- August 13, 1997
- Granted
- February 29, 2000
- Expires
- August 13, 2017
- Inventor
- LEE YUN-WON
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of plumcot tree (apricot×plum) which is a heavy and regular producer of fruit; with half-open growth habit; producing firm, dark red fruit overspread with yellowish spots; with the fruit having good handling and shipping qualities, high brix values (18% average), excellent flavor and eating quality, and purplish red to dark flesh; the fruit ripening in middle season (late July); the stone being very small; and the fruit being semi-clingstone.
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 plumcot (apricot×plum) tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its medium size, half open growth and being a regular and productive bearer of medium sized, middle to late season maturing, purplish red to dark red flesh, semi-clingstone fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality and having a red ground color skin overspread with attractive yellowish spots; and characterized by the fruit having a very small stone.
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