Melrose plum tree

USPP8864P · kind P · plant

Assignee

• David K. Kamada · US

Inventors

• Leonard M. Kamada · Orange Cove, US
• Ignacio Sanchez · Long Beach, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 4, 1993
• Grant date: Aug 16, 1994
• Expiry date: Nov 4, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Black Beaut" plum tree in that it produces fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately simultaneously with the fruit of the "Beaut" plum tree, but from which it is distinguished by having a greater regularity of bearing, due to the production of pollen, and wherein the fruit has a more uniformly dark purple skin coloration, a more balanced flavor and a smaller pit without a tendency to fragment.