Cherry tree named '13S2009'

• US 20040045061P1
• Filed: 03/06/2003
• Published: 03/04/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Agriculture And Agri-Food Canada
• Original Assignee: Agriculture And Agri-Food Canada
• Inventors: Lane, W. David
• Granted Patent: US PP20,551 P3
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: PLT/181
• CPC Class Codes: A01H 5/08 Fruits
• CPC Class Codes: A01H 6/7445 Cherries

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of cherry tree, is described. A seedling originating from open pollination of ‘Sweetheart’, was discovered at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre Summerland in 1982, planted out in 1984 and given the breeder'"'"'s reference number ‘13S-20-09’ in 1991. The variety has been established and is being maintained at the research facility. Evaluations began upon fruiting. The variety is stable with no variations occurring, and demonstrates qualities of the tree, flower, and fruit that in combination make the variety significantly different from its parents and other fruiting cherry varieties, in that ‘13S2009’ has large flattened-heart shaped fruit, with shiny, dark red skin and red to dark red flesh. The fruit has a non-prominent suture and a flat to slightly hollow apex. The fruit matures very late in the harvest season, about 27 days after ‘Van’ and ‘Bing’ and 8 days after ‘Sweetheart’. The flesh of the fruit is very firm, and has a moderately sweet taste. The fruit are tolerant to rain splitting. The stone of ‘13S20-09’ is intermediate in lateral view, large in size, and has strongly developed keel. The tree is upright to spreading, self-compatible, moderately vigorous and has produced good, crops annually since fruiting commenced. The variety was named ‘13S2009’ in 2000.

Claims

1. A new and distinct variety of sweet cherry tree substantially as herein illustrated and described, named ‘

13S2009’

, originating as a seedling from open pollination of ‘

Sweetheart’

, and distinguished from other varieties in that the fruit matures very late in the cherry harvest season, is flattened-heart in shape, has dark red skin, red to dark red flesh, is very large, very firm, sweet, tolerant of rain-induced cracking and self-compatible under growing conditions at Summerland in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada.