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US PP14,237 P2Granted
Plum tree named ‘Yummycrisp’
OwnerLowell Glen Bradfordinventor
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The present invention relates to a plum tree, Prunus salicina, and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large size, vigorous, hardy, heavy blooming, pollen abundant, self-unfruitful, and usually productive tree. The present variety requires cross pollinization from another early blooming plum, such as ‘Yummybeaut’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,478). The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during late July, with first picking on Jul. 25, 2002, but will hang on the tree for nearly thirty more days. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, nearly black in skin color, clingstone in type, yellow with some pink bleeding in flesh color, very firm and crisp in texture, excellent in flavor, and holds well in cold storage for more than thirty days. The present variety was developed from an open pollinated seedling of an unnamed black plum.
A new and distinct variety of plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Friar’ (unpatented), by being self-unfruitful and by producing plums that are nearly black in skin color and that first mature in late July, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by blooming at least one week earlier, by cross pollinating some other early blooming varieties, such as ‘Yummybeaut’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,478), and by producing plums that are smoother in skin surface, that are globose instead of oblate in shape, that acquire more red flesh color at maturity, that are crispier in texture, that are not as large in size, and that hang very firm on the tree much longer.
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