US Plant Patent PP6884
MN Sel
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.