US Plant Patent PP8118
Improved Funshine
Chrysanthemum plant -- Improved Funshine cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 24, 2011. 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
- PP8118
- Filed
- June 24, 1991
- Granted
- January 26, 1993
- Expires
- June 24, 2011
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named Improved Funshine is provided. The new cultivar is a spontaneous mutation of the Funshine cultivar (U.S. Ser. No. 07/719,461, filed concurrently herewith). More specifically, the new cultivar forms attractive relatively small bicolored flowers wherein the petals are white and the disc florets on the distal ends particularly towards the center bear a stronger and more intense red coloration than the Funshine cultivar (as illustrated). Also, the new cultivar exhibits more vigor than the Funshine cultivar. The inflorescence tends to be pyramidal in configuration. The response period of the flowers is approximately seven and one-half weeks. The new cultivar is particularly suited for use in the production of a cut anemone spray under greenhouse conditions.
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 cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named Improved Funshine, substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits attractive relatively small anemone flowers having an overall diameter of approximately 40 mm. wherein the petals are white and the disc florets particularly towards the center bear a red coloration on the distal ends which is more intense than that present on the Funshine cultivar, (b) bears flowers in a somewhat pyramidal configuration, (c) exhibits a flower response period of approximately seven and one-half weeks, (d) exhibits more vigor than the Funshine cultivar, (e) forms attractive dark green foliage, and (f) has the ability to produce flowers of commercially acceptable quality throughout the year in a cut mum production program.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8118 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.