US Plant Patent PP5202
Flash
Chrysanthemum plant(Flash)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 29, 2002. 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
- PP5202
- Filed
- January 29, 1982
- Granted
- March 6, 1984
- Expires
- January 29, 2002
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Flash and characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; bronze ray floret color, with minimum color oxidation; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 70 to 80 mm. at maturity; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; long peduncle length; medium plant height when grown single stem, 10 to 20 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays with slow development of tight green discs, and 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds.
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 plant of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., known by the cultivar name Flash, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; bronze ray floret color, with minimum color oxidation; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 70 to 80 mm. at maturity; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; long peduncle length; medium plant height when grown single stem; 10 to 20 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; slow development of tight green discs, and 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds.
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