US Plant Patent PP4555
name: Vanguard
Chrysanthemum plant cultivar name: Vanguard
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 9, 1999. 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
- PP4555
- Filed
- February 9, 1979
- Granted
- June 24, 1980
- Expires
- February 9, 1999
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Vanguard and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form twisting with age; decorative capitulum type; dark yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 70 to 90 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; short plant height when grown as a pinched spray pot, and spreading branching pattern.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., plant as shown and described, known by the cultivar name Vanguard and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form, twisting at maturity; decorative capitulum type; dark yellow ray floret color, devoid of bronze overtones; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 70 to 90 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response; tall plant height; and spreading branching pattern.
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