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AssigneeState of Queensland through its Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries
InventorsDougal Mackenzie Russell, Bruce Topp
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A new and distinct plum tree variety bearing fruit which are high in antioxidants and anthocyanins that makes it distinct from other Japanese-like plum trees that bear red fleshed fruit. The fruit is characterized by its attractive dark red to black skin color and its intense blood red flesh color ripening in mid February in the Granite Belt of southern Queensland, Australia. The trees are precocious with regular high annual fruit production.
A new and distinct plum tree named ‘Queen Garnet’ as herein described and illustrated.
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Latin name of the genus and species of the plant claimed: Prunus salicina Lindl.
Variety denomination: ‘Queen Garnet’.
This invention relates to the discovery and asexual propagation of a new and distinct variety of plum tree, Prunus salicina Lindl cv. ‘Queen Garnet’, as herein described and illustrated.
The accompanying photographic illustrations show typical specimens in full colour of the foliage and fruit of the new plum tree variety named ‘Queen Garnet’. The colours are as nearly true as is reasonably possible in a colour representation of this type.
FIG. 1 is a photographic representation showing the fruit of the new plum tree variety named ‘Queen Garnet’ clustered on fruiting branches prior to harvest.
FIG. 2 is a photographic representation showing an individual cluster of the fruit of the new plum tree variety ‘Queen Garnet’ with part of the natural fruit blush wiped off to show underlying skin colour and fruit lenticels.
Throughout this specification, colour names beginning with a small letter signify that the name of that colour, as used in common speech, is aptly descriptive. Colour names (except those in common terms) with name, number and capital letter designate values based upon The Royal Horticultural Society (R.H.S.) Colour Chart 1966, LONDON, Flower Council of Holland.
The new plum tree variety described herein was derived from an open-pollinated cross of ‘Blackamber’ plum (female (seed) parent) and the Australian plum variety ‘Amber Jewel’ (male (pollen) parent). Fruit were first picked and observed in January 2001, then asexually propagated onto peach rootstock (‘Nemared’ peach) and subsequently observed on top-worked peach trees in late January 2004.
All observations subsequently have been on the original tree and grafted trees of the new plum tree variety ‘Queen Garnet’. Asexual reproduction of this new variety by grafting and budding onto rootstock shows that the foregoing and all other characteristics and distinctions come true to form and are established and transmitted through succeeding propagations.