US Plant Patent PP5017
Limelight
Chrysanthemum plant (Limelight)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 8, 2001. 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
- PP5017
- Filed
- January 8, 1981
- Granted
- March 29, 1983
- Expires
- January 8, 2001
- Inventor
- PETUSKY KERRY S
Abstract
A new cultivar of pot chrysanthemum characterized by its single flower form of medium size and white coloration, its abundant production of blooms when grown as a spray pot, its minimal pollen production, its vigorous and upright growth habit with abundant foliage, its nine-week photoperiodic response, and its ability for year around flowering on medium treatment.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive cultivar of chrysanthemum, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly characterized by its single flower form, generally white coloration of the ray florets, greenish-yellow coloration of the disc florets, and its very floriferous and vigorous growth habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5017 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.