US Plant Patent PP6059
Adorn
Chrysanthemum plant named Adorn
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 20, 2005. 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
- PP6059
- Filed
- August 20, 1985
- Granted
- December 8, 1987
- Expires
- August 20, 2005
- Assignee
- MACK GRACE H
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E; VANDENBERG CORNELIS P; MACK GRACE H
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Adorn having flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum up to 8 cm.; short plant height; semi-spreading branching pattern; average natural season flowering date of September 10 in the West Coast area; average flowering response period of seven weeks in photoperiodic controlled short day programs; and durable, uniform performance in Spring small pot flowering programs.
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., named Adorn, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form, daisy capitulum type, purple ray floret color, diameter across face of capitulum up to 8 cm., short plant height, semi-spreading branching pattern, average natural season flowering date of September 10 in the West Coast area, average flowering response period of seven weeks in photoperiodic controlled short day programs, and durable, uniform performance in Spring small pot flowering programs.
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