US Plant Patent PP5018
Chrysanthemum plant (Candlelight)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 8, 2001. 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
- PP5018
- Filed
- January 8, 1981
- Granted
- March 29, 1983
- Expires
- January 8, 2001
- Inventor
- PETUSKY KERRY S
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new cultivar of chrysanthemum particularly suitable for six-inch pot plant production, characterized by its single flower form of medium size and unique bronze coloration, its very abundant production of blooms when grown as a spray pot, and its ray florets which are of excellent substance. This variety is also distinguished by its abundant dark green foliage on strong, erect stems and its rapid growth rate. When grown under cool to moderate weather conditions, this variety exhibits a ten-week photoperiodic response.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive cultivar of chrysanthemum, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly characterized by its single flower form, medium flower size, flowers which exhibit bronze coloration and excellent substance, abundant foliage and its applicability for six-inch pot production.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5018 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.