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US Plant Patent PP6884

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Chrysanthemum plant-day Neutral

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 23, 2008. 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
PP6884
Filed
May 23, 1988
Granted
June 27, 1989
Expires
May 23, 2008

Abstract

A Chrysanthemum plant having flat capitulum form; composite, semi-double decorative flowers; creamy white ray florets; height of approximately 27 cm. in a four inch greenhouse plant and approximately 20.8 cm. as an outdoor garden plant; uniform three week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; being day neutral and insensitive to heat delay and capable of flowering year around under any photoperiodic conditions.

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., as shown and described, and particularly characterized as to novelty by the combined characteristics of day neutrality, a semidouble decorative flower type, short plant height, and insensitivity to thermophotoperiodic delay in flower bud initiation and development.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6884 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.