Plum tree named ‘Plumsweet XXII’

Abstract

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, and productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollination from an apricot, interspecific, or plum that blooms during the mid season, such as ‘Plumsweet X’ interspecific tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 19,528). The present variety produces a moderate amount of flowers that produce an abundance of pollen to entice good bee activity to facilitate pollination. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during late June, with first picking on Jun. 26, 2019. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, a red and green two-tone in skin color, almost full red in flesh color, freestone in type, globose to heart shaped, firm in texture, juicy, very sweet, and excellent in flavor.

We claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree,  Prunus salicina , substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Plumsweet XI’ interspecific tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 19,796), by being self-unfruitful and by producing fruit that is a red and greenish yellow two-tone with freckles in skin color, firm in texture, juicy, very sweet, and excellent in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom by blooming in the mid instead of early season and by producing fruit that is globose to heart shaped instead of oblate, completely red and pink in flesh color instead of red and yellow, freestone instead of clingstone in type, and that ripens about 5 days earlier.