US Plant Patent PP5009
Snow Westland
Chrysanthemum named Snow Westland
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 2, 2000. 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
- PP5009
- Filed
- October 2, 1980
- Granted
- March 22, 1983
- Expires
- October 2, 2000
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- VAN DER KNAAP JACQUES C M
Abstract
A new and unique spray-type chrysanthemum intended for greenhouse culture to produce pot plants and cut flowers, this plant being distinguished by its generally white flowers which have spoon-tipped ray florets, its medium sized blooms which vary in size from 6 to 10 cm. in diameter, and a lasting quality of about four weeks both on the plant and as a cut flower. The title of this application is the European denomination for this variety. In the United States, this variety is marketed as "Westland Snow".
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct chrysanthemum cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its white spoon-tipped ray florets radiating from inner florets of a very light yellow color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5009 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.