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US Plant Patent PP7765

Red Nugget

`Red Nugget` plum tree

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 4, 2010. 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
PP7765
Filed
June 4, 1990
Granted
January 14, 1992
Expires
June 4, 2010
Inventor
MATOBA FRANK T

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of plum tree derived as an open pollinated hybrid of the `Red Beaut` plum tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,539) producing a medium red, semi-clingstone fruit having noteworthy shipping and handling characteristics for an early plum and which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 10 to May 15 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California, or approximately ten days before the fruit of the `Red Beaut` plum tree.

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 I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree substantially as illustrated and described and which produces small and uniform, medium red semi-clingstone fruit having noteworthy shipping and handling characteristics for an early plum and which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 10 to May 15 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California, or approximately ten days before the fruit of the `Red Beaut` plum tree.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7765 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.