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US Plant Patent PP8124

Bayfrank

Chrysanthemum plant -- Bayfrank cultivar

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 25, 2011. 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
PP8124
Filed
June 25, 1991
Granted
February 2, 1993
Expires
June 25, 2011

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named Bayfrank is provided. The new cultivar was the result of a controlled breeding program wherein the Bijoux cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,241) was pollinated by an unnamed seedling formed by the crossing of the Fleur cultivar (non-patented in the United States) by the Delta cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,815). More specifically, the new cultivar forms attractive relatively large anemone pink-purple flowers having a darker flower center (as illustrated). The inflorescence tends to assume a generally flat capitulum form when mature. The response period of the flowers is approximately eigh weeks. The new cultivar is particularly suited for use in the production of a cut anemone spray under greenhouse conditions.

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 cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named Bayfrank, substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits attractive relatively large anemone pink-purple flowers having a darker center, (b) bears flowers in a generally flat capitulum configuration when mature, (c) exhibits a flower response period of approximately eight weeks, (d) forms attractive dark green foliage, and (e) has the ability to produce flowers of commercially acceptable quality throughout the year in a cut mum production program.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8124 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.