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US Plant Patent PP6999

Hekla

Chrysanthemum plant name Hekla

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 22, 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
PP6999
Filed
September 22, 1988
Granted
August 22, 1989
Expires
September 22, 2008

Abstract

A chrysanthemum plant named Hekla particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 47 mm at maturity; medium plant height with spreading and prolific branching pattern; average natural season flower date of August 25 in Salinas, Calif. and September 20 in Hightstown, N.J.; uniform seven week photoperiodic flowering response to short days in photoperiodic controlled flowering programs; and durable, uniform performance in outside fall flowerings and in spring small pot flowering programs.

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 chrysanthemum plant named Hekla, as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6999 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.