US Plant Patent PP4469
Fantasy
Chrysanthemum named Fantasy
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 26, 1998. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4469
- Filed
- October 26, 1978
- Granted
- October 23, 1979
- Expires
- October 26, 1998
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- SHOESMITH LEONARD H
Abstract
{PG,1 A new and distinct cultivar of chrysanthemum for greenhouse culture as a spray pot plant characterized by the dark pink color of the spoon-tipped ray florets comprising the flower head, each spoon-shaped portion of the ray florets extending from a narrow white stem. This plant is also characterized by its 9-week response with medium sized blooms having a relatively heavy pollen production and by its formation of about 5 to 7 lateral breaks when pinched.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new cultivar of chrysanthemum, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the form and coloration of the ray florets of its composite and single blooms; its relatively heavy pollen production; and its 9-week photoperiodic response when grown as a spray pot plant.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4469 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.